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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.
- Initially von Leeb, using troops borrowed from von Bock, was able to mount a concerted attack both on the defensive positions of the southern suburbs and the area north of the main rail line to Moscow, their objective being the historic village now a suburb of Schlüsselburg, right on Lake Ladoga. Deathride
- This is dynamic - as the cursor moves, the input information trails along with it, changing as necessary.
- The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way. Canadian Cities of Romance
- It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
- Trailing edge vibration has been dampened by reinforcement with thin glass fibre rod inserts or mylar overlays, so eliminating excessive noise.
- From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering. Funeral Games
- They sneak forward to climb up the small gap between the lorry 's cab and trailer. The Sun
