rail

Etymology 1
From, , , (found in ), partly from  and partly from ; both from , from ; see.

Noun

 * 1) A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
 * 2) The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
 * 3) A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
 * 4)  A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
 * 5) A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
 * 6)  One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
 * 7) * c. 2000, Nick Carroll, surfline.com :
 * Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability.
 * 1)  A vertical section on one side of a web page.
 * 2)  A large line portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug.
 * 3) Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
 * 1) A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
 * 2)  One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
 * 3) * c. 2000, Nick Carroll, surfline.com :
 * Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability.
 * 1)  A vertical section on one side of a web page.
 * 2)  A large line portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug.
 * 3) Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
 * 1) Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
 * 1) Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: zábradlí
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: ráille
 * Italian:, , , , ,
 * Japanese:, 手すり
 * Maori: tangotango, kaho, puringa, huapae, tārawa , rōau
 * Norwegian: rekkverk, gelender, rekkverk, gelender
 * Ottoman Turkish: پرمق
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: rèile
 * Spanish:, , barandal
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: рэ́йка
 * Bulgarian: релса
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, , koleje
 * Danish: skinne
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: relo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: រេណបថ
 * Korean: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: rèile
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish: raíl, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: ре́йка


 * German:,  Fensterkreuz, Türkreuz,
 * Italian: asta divisoria, ,
 * Maori: rōau
 * Norwegian: sprosse (i vindu), (for dør)
 * Swedish: (both horisontal and vertical),  (both horisontal and vertical)


 * Italian: battagliola


 * Dutch:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:,  ,  ,

Verb

 * 1)  To travel by railway.
 * 2)  To place on a track.
 * 3)  To enclose with rails or a railing.
 * 4)  To range in a line.
 * 5)  To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
 * 1)  To range in a line.
 * 2)  To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
 * 1)  To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: пътувам с влак
 * Finnish: matkustaa junalla,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: järjestää jonoon

Etymology 2
From, , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬. Named from its harsh cry, 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several birds in the family.

Usage notes

 * Not all birds in the family are rails by their common name. The family also includes coots, moorhens, crakes, flufftails, waterhens and others.

Derived terms

 * Aldabra rail
 * bar-winged rail
 * Calayan rail
 * Chatham rail
 * chestnut rail
 * Dieffenbach's rail
 * ( spp.)
 * grey-throated rail
 * Inaccessible Island rail
 * invisible rail
 * Laysan rail
 * New Guinea flightless rail
 * Nkulengu rail
 * red rail
 * Rouget's rail
 * snoring rail
 * Virginia rail
 * white-throated rail
 * Woodford's rail
 * wood rail ( spp.)
 * Zapata rail
 * Nkulengu rail
 * red rail
 * Rouget's rail
 * snoring rail
 * Virginia rail
 * white-throated rail
 * Woodford's rail
 * wood rail ( spp.)
 * Zapata rail
 * white-throated rail
 * Woodford's rail
 * wood rail ( spp.)
 * Zapata rail
 * Zapata rail

Translations

 * Bulgarian: дърдавец
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Middle French: rale, rasle
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: rallus
 * Norman: râle
 * Persian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: capovoznik
 * Spanish: rascón
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: காணாங்கோழி
 * Welsh: rhegen

Etymology 3
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To complain violently.
 * 2) * 1910, "Saki", H. H. Munro, The Bag,
 * The Major’s fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day’s shopping tries on a succession of garments. He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignant for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.
 * 1) * 1910, "Saki", H. H. Munro, The Bag,
 * The Major’s fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day’s shopping tries on a succession of garments. He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignant for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.
 * The Major’s fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day’s shopping tries on a succession of garments. He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignant for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.

Translations

 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ; ゴネる
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:, ,

Etymology 4
From, , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
 * 2)  Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.

Etymology 5
Probably from,.

Verb

 * 1)  To gush; to flow.

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Usage notes
The diminutive railsjes is only used if used for railway tracks.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) rail