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/rˈeɪlɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Railing n.

A barrier made of a rail or of rails, together with vertical supports. The typical railing in the interior of structures or on porches has a horizontal rail near waist height, and multiple vertical supports. Its function is usually to provide a safety barrier at the edge of a verticle drop to prevent falls.

Rails in general; also, material for making rails.

verb

Rail v. t. (past & past part. railed; pres. part. railing)

To inclose with rails or a railing. "It ought to be fenced in and railed."

To range in a line. (Obs.) "They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart."

Rail v. t.

To rail at. (Obs.)

To move or influence by railing. (R.) "Rail the seal from off my bond."

Rail v. i. To flow forth; to roll out; to course. (Obs.) "Streams of tears from her fair eyes forth railing."

Rail v. i. To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; followed by at or against, formerly by on. "And rail at arts he did not understand." "Lesbia forever on me rails."

adjective

Railing adj. Expressing reproach; insulting. "Angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them."

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Etymology of 'Railing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Railing" Quotes from Famous Books

... party was almost run over by a wagon just as they were crossing a bridge. In the commotion Emma slipped under the railing and fell into the stream. Somebody screamed, and Walter sprang ...

— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli

... the lake lashed by the wind. Great masses of water moving swiftly and silently broke with a roar against wooden piles, backed by hills of stone and earth, and the spray from the broken waves fell upon Sam's face and on winter nights froze on his coat. He had learned to smoke, and leaning upon the railing of the bridge would stand for hours with a pipe in his mouth looking at the moving water, filled with awe and admiration of the ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

... for some little time. Then I saw that by squeezing between two plies of lumber could reach the other side of the platform. When I reached the railing I climbed over, and, with the help of braces and posts, soon got to where I could drop down. Once on the ground I ran along under the platform until I saw a lane that led to the street. My one thought was to reach ...

— The Young Forester • Zane Grey

... part of women, but when it was a question of extra port wine for himself, he never considered the tortures of gout he might be entailing upon his own hapless descendants. However, there was an excuse for him on this occasion, for it is not every day that an irritated man has an opportunity of railing at his wife's incapacity and the inconvenient intelligence of his daughter both in one breath. "But how has Evadne obtained all this mischievous information? I cannot think how she could have obtained it!" he ejaculated, knitting his brows at his wife in a suspicious way, as he ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... a humorous puckering at the eyes, a sort of fat laugh, very quiet and full, and he was spoilt like a lord of creation. He calmly did as he liked, laughed at their railing, excused himself in a teasing tone that she loved, followed his natural inclinations, and sometimes, pricked too near the quick, frightened and broke her by a deep, tense fury which seemed to fix ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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