How to pronounce“rail”in English
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Definitions of “rail”
A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
“Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.”
The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
“A "moving platform" scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.”
To travel by railway.
“Mottram of the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert […]”
To place on a track.
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