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US
/ˈɹeɪɫz/
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[ UK /ɹˈeɪlz/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪlz/ ]
NOUN
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
How To Use rails In A Sentence
- 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
- The trails should provide a skiing flow so there aren't too many long uphills or sharp turns at the bottom of steep downhills.
- It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
- Handrails or balustrades are essential if there is any danger of falling.
- On Saturday we finished the fencing, stapling sheep netting to the rails, and on Sunday gave the pig ark and the old chook ark a coat of water-based preservative.
- The reason, it turns out, is that American airspace was shut down, and no airplanes means no contrails.
- This is dynamic - as the cursor moves, the input information trails along with it, changing as necessary.
- there are no trails of the wings in the sky, while the birds has flied away.
- Inside are row upon row of metal shelving on rails, containing thousands of boxes stacked to the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
- It could, for example, be used on rails in rural areas, which often get coated with a film of rust when not used at weekends.