rail
Definition
- n. short for railway
- n. a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- n. any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- v. complain bitterly
Word forms
- Past tense
- railed
- Past participle
- railed
- Present participle
- railing
- Third person singular
- rails
Example sentences
n.
The train passed smoothly over the steel rail.
vt.
They will rail the garden to keep the rabbits out.
vi.
She began to rail against the unfair treatment she received at work.