Definition of rail

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Rail (n.) A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc..

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Ortolan :: Ortolan (n.) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora..
Intestine :: Intestine (a.) The bowels; entrails; viscera.
Persiflage :: Persiflage (n.) Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery..
Delitigate :: Delitigate (v. i.) To chide; to rail heartily.
Quarry :: Quarry (n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds..
Wagon :: Wagon (n.) A freight car on a railway.
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor.
Train :: Train (v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
Rail :: Rail (n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks..
Detrain :: Detrain (v. i. & t.) To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train..
Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
Introit :: Introit (n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar..
Pennywort :: Pennywort (n.) A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets..
Waste :: Waste (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc..
Espalier :: Espalier (n.) A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained..
Eviscerate :: Eviscerate (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
Itemize :: Itemize (v. t.) To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad..
Nombles :: Nombles (n. pl.) The entrails of a deer; the umbles.
Gallinule :: Gallinule (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule
Cowcatxjer :: Cowcatxjer (n.) A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot..
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