Definition of rail

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Rail (n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed..

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Grail :: Grail (n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail..
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..
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal..
Junction :: "Junction (n.) The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross..
Inveigh :: Inveigh (v. i.) To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse..
Callet :: Callet (v. i.) To rail or scold.
Engrail :: Engrail (v. t.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.
Trail :: Trail (n.) Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke..
Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc..
Jim-crow :: Jim-crow (n.) A machine for bending or straightening rails.
Sangreal :: Sangreal (n.) See Holy Grail, under Grail..
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..
Periwinkle :: Periwinkle (n.) A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.
Culvert :: Culvert (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge..
Leveling :: Leveling (n.) The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad..
Convicious :: Convicious (a.) Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting.
Freight :: Freight (n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. t.) To scold; to rail at.
Branch :: Branch (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway..
Trolly :: Trolly (n.) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car..
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