1.  rail(n = noun.artifact) railing - a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports;
is a kind of barrier
is a part of balusters, balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail
has parts: ledger board
has particulars: bar, fife rail, guardrail, safety rail, taffrail
Derived forms verb rail₄, verb rail₃, verb rail₂

2.  rail(n = noun.artifact) - short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety"
is a kind of railroad, railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system
Derived forms verb rail₆, verb rail₅

3.  rail(n = noun.artifact) rails, runway, track - a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll;
is a kind of bar
is a part of railroad, railroad track, railway, streetcar track, tramline, tramway
has particulars: third rail
Derived forms verb rail₇, verb rail₆, verb rail₅

4.  rail(n = noun.artifact) - a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal);
is a kind of bar
has particulars: hitching bar, hitchrack, ledger board, picture rail, plate rail, fence rail, split rail
Derived forms verb rail₃, verb rail₂

5.  rail(n = noun.animal) - any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud;
is a kind of wader, wading bird
is a member of family rallidae, rallidae
has particulars: maori hen, weka, wood hen, crake, notornis, notornis mantelli, takahe, coot

1.  rail(v = verb.communication) inveigh - complain bitterly;
is one way to complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

2.  rail(v = verb.stative) rail in - enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"
is one way to confine, enclose, hold in
Derived forms noun rail₄, noun rail₁, noun railing₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3.  rail(v = verb.possession) - provide with rails; "The yard was railed"
is one way to furnish, provide, render, supply
Derived forms noun rail₄, noun rail₁, noun railing₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  rail(v = verb.motion) rail off - separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
is one way to divide, separate
Derived forms noun rail₁, noun railing₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

5.  rail(v = verb.motion) - convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
is one way to transport
Derived forms noun rail₂, noun rail₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP

6.  rail(v = verb.motion) train - travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg"
is one way to ride
Derived forms noun rail₂, noun rail₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

7.  rail(v = verb.contact) - lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
is one way to lay, put down, repose
Derived form noun rail₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

8.  rail(v = verb.competition) - fish with a handline over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish"
is one way to fish
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

9.  rail(v = verb.communication) revile, vilify, vituperate - spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"
is one way to abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw, shout
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

10.  rail(v = verb.communication) fulminate - criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
is one way to denounce
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

   An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]

   To flow forth; to roll out; to course. [1913 Webster]
"Streams of tears from her fair eyes forth railing." [1913 Webster]

1.  A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc. [1913 Webster]

2.  A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style. [1913 Webster]

3.  A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc. [1913 Webster]

4.  The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks. [1913 Webster]

5.  A railroad as a means of transportation; as, to go by rail; a place not accesible by rail. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

6.  a railing. [PJC]

1.  To inclose with rails or a railing. [1913 Webster]
"It ought to be fenced in and railed." [1913 Webster]

2.  To range in a line. [1913 Webster]
"They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart." [1913 Webster]

   Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidæ, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds. [1913 Webster]
" The common European water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is called also bilcock, skitty coot, and brook runner. The best known American species are the clapper rail, or salt-marsh hen (Rallus longirostris, var. crepitans); the king, or red-breasted, rail (Rallus elegans) (called also fresh-water marshhen); the lesser clapper, or Virginia, rail (Rallus Virginianus); and the Carolina, or sora, rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora." [1913 Webster]

   To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"And rail at arts he did not understand." [1913 Webster]
"Lesbia forever on me rails." [1913 Webster]

1.  To rail at. Feltham. [1913 Webster]

2.  To move or influence by railing. [1913 Webster]
"Rail the seal from off my bond." [1913 Webster]

rail, n. & v.
--n.
1 a level or sloping bar or series of bars: a used to hang things on. b running along the top of a set of banisters. c forming part of a fence or barrier as protection against contact, falling over, etc.
2 a steel bar or continuous line of bars laid on the ground, usu. as one of a pair forming a railway track.
3 (often attrib.) a railway (send it by rail; rail fares).
4 (in pl.) the inside boundary fence of a racecourse.
5 a horizontal piece in the frame of a panelled door etc. (cf. STILE(2)).
--v.tr.
1 furnish with a rail or rails.
2 (usu. foll. by in, off) enclose with rails (a small space was railed off).
3 convey (goods) by rail.

Idiom:
off the rails disorganized; out of order; deranged. over the rails over the side of a ship. rail fence esp. US a fence made of posts and rails. rail gun an electromagnetic projectile launcher used esp. as an anti-missile weapon.

Derivative:
railage n. railless adj.

rail, v.intr. (often foll. by at, against) complain using abusive language; rant.

Derivative:
railer n. railing n. & adj.

rail, n. any bird of the family Rallidae, often inhabiting marshes, esp. the corncrake and water rail.

Etymology:
ME f. ONF raille f. Rmc, perh. imit.

N  prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion), penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea, King's Bench, Queen's Bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag.

N  inclosure, envelope, case, wrapper, girdle, pen, fold, pen fold, in fold, sheep fold, paddock, pound, corral, yard, net, seine net, wall, hedge, hedge row, espalier, fence, pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence, barrier, barricade, gate, gateway, bent, dingle, door, hatch, cordon, prison, dike, dyke, ditch, fosse, moat.

VB  disapprove, dislike, lament, object to, take exception to, be scandalized at, think ill of, view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes, nil admirari, disvalue, improbate, frown upon, look grave, bend the brows, knit the brows, shake the head at, shrug the shoulders, turn up the nose, look askance, look black upon, look with an evil eye, make a wry face, make a wry mouth at, set one's face against, dispraise, discommend, disparage, deprecate, speak ill of, not speak well of, condemn, blame, lay blame upon, cast blame upon, censure, fronder, reproach, pass censure on, reprobate, impugn, remonstrate, expostulate, recriminate, reprehend, chide, admonish, berate, betongue, bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order, take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book, read a lesson, read a lecture to, rebuke, correct, reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete, overhaul, give it one, give it one finely, gibbet, accuse, impeach, denounce, hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration, expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize, show up, pull up, take up, cry 'shame' upon, be outspoken, raise a hue and cry against, execrate, exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate, abuse, abuse like a pickpocket, scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of, jaw, rail, rail at, rail in good set terms, bark at, anathematize, call names, call by hard names, call by ugly names, avile, revile, vilify, vilipend, bespatter, backbite, clapperclaw, rave against, thunder against, fulminate against, load with reproaches, exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against, cry out against, raise one's voice against, decry, cry down, run down, frown down, clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist, draw up a round robin, sign a round robin, animadvert upon, reflect upon, glance at, cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon, insinuate, damn with faint praise, hint a fault and hesitate dislike, not to be able to say much for, scoff at, point at, twit, taunt, sneer at, satirize, lampoon, defame, depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, take exception, cavil, peck at, nibble at, carp at, be censorious, pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat, make a fuss about, take down, take down a peg, set down, snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles, throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden, have a fling, have a snap at, have words with, pluck a crow with, give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue, incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt, get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears, take blame, stand corrected, have to answer for.

N  animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.

fence rail, fife rail, land rail, picture rail, plate rail, rail at, rail fence, rail in, rail line, rail off, rail technology, safety rail, split rail, t rail, third rail, towel rail, water rail