Definition of rail

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Rail (v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds..

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Railing :: Railing (a.) Expressing reproach; insulting.
Tram :: Tram (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore..
Claw :: Claw (n.) To rail at; to scold.
Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident..
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail..
Switch :: Switch (n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another..
Mitraille :: Mitraille (n.) Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line..
Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like..
Mitrailleur :: Mitrailleur (n.) One who serves a mitrailleuse.
Derailment :: Derailment (n.) The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad..
Bull :: Bull (v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4..
Derailing :: Derailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derai.
Arterial :: Arterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad..
Cutting :: Cutting (n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut..
Mahovo :: Mahovo (n.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel..
Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc..
Gauge :: Gauge (n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.
Railing :: Railing (n.) A barrier made of a rail or of rails.
Occurrence :: Occurrence (n.) A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision..
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