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rail

English

🔊 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)
🔊 short for railway
“he traveled by rail”
🔊 a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
🔊 a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
🔊 complain bitterly
🔊 fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
“They are railing for fresh fish”
🔊 lay with rails
“hundreds of miles were railed out here”
🔊 convey (goods etc.) by rails
“fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium”
🔊 separate with a railing
“rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace”
🔊 provide with rails
“The yard was railed”
🔊 enclose with rails
“rail in the old graves”
🔊 criticize severely
“He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare”
🔊 travel by rail or train
“They railed from Rome to Venice”
🔊 spread negative information about
“The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews”