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• Rail

  ·vt To rail at. II. Rail ·vt To range in a line. III. Rail ·vt To move or influence by railing. I...

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• rail

  n. common English birdname. There aremany varieties in New Zealand and Australia, especially in the...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rail

  A piece of timber, cleft, hewed, or sawed, inserted in upright posts for fencing. The common rails a...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• T rail

  ·- ·see under <<T>>. ...

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• Third rail

  ·add. ·- An electric railway using such a rail. II. Third rail ·add. ·- The third rail used in the ...

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• Water rail

  ·- Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus ...

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• slip-rail

  n. part of a fence so fitted that itcan be removed so as to serve as a gate. Used also for thegatew...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• weka, rail

  n. See weka. ...

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• to rail it

  To travel by rail-road. From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• rail-car

  A car for transporting passengers on rail-roads. ...

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• bow-rail

  A rail round the bows. ...

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• breast-rail

  The upper rail of the balcony; formerly it was applied to a railing in front of the quarter-deck, an...

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• false rail

  A thin plank fayed at the head-rails as a strengthener. ...

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• forecastle-rail

  The rail extended on stanchions across the after-part of the forecastle-deck in some ships. ...

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• pedestal-rail

  A rail about two inches thick, wrought over the foot-space rail, and in which there is a groove to s...

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• sheer-rail

  The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...

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• top-rail

  A rail supported on stanchions across the after-part of each of a ship's tops. ...

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• waist-rail

  The channel-rail or moulding of the ship's side. ...

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• Third-rail system

  ·add. ·- A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, t...

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• foot-space-rail

  The rail that terminates the foot of the balcony, in which the balusters step, if there be no pedest...

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• post-and-rail tea

  slang name for strong bush-tea: socalled because large bits of the tea, or supposed tea, floatabout ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris