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UK
/ɹˈeɪl/
]
[ US /ˈɹeɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹeɪɫ/ ]
VERB
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convey (goods etc.) by rails
fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium -
enclose with rails
rail in the old graves -
spread negative information about
The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews -
travel by rail or train
They railed from Rome to Venice
She trained to Hamburg -
criticize severely
She railed against the bad social policies
He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare -
separate with a railing
rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace -
fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
They are railing for fresh fish - complain bitterly
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lay with rails
hundreds of miles were railed out here -
provide with rails
The yard was railed
NOUN
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
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short for railway
he was concerned with rail safety
he traveled by rail - any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
How To Use rail In A Sentence
- At the iron railings turn left into the war memorial gardens. Times, Sunday Times
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
- They sneak forward to climb up the small gap between the lorry 's cab and trailer. The Sun
- They blew up the line and derailed a freight train as well. Times, Sunday Times
- Beyond the stand of trees, well away from the road, the hiking trail became dark.
- The trails should provide a skiing flow so there aren't too many long uphills or sharp turns at the bottom of steep downhills.
- Fuss' photograms have reproduced water droplets, birds in flight, moving light and even a trail of snakes moving across light-sensitive paper, dusted with talcum powder.
- But he railed against subsidies for ethanol producers and other provisions of the bill that he called unneeded, unnecessary, unwanted sweeteners ' ' to win votes for the package. Tax-Cut Bill Draws Wide Support in Senate
- The town hall lost two bollards and a litter bin, railings, and a large stone pedestal has been cracked.
