rail
/ɹeɪ(ə)l/ verb C2- To travel by railway.
- To place on a track.
- To enclose with rails or a railing. · They ought to rail off the playground.
- To range in a line.
- To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- To snort a line of powdered drugs.
He/she/it rails · Past railed · Past participle railed · -ing form railing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rail
- He/she/it
- rails
- Past
- railed
- Past participle
- railed
- -ing form
- railing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“There are no trains before six in the morning; so he can’t get away by rail.
“The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions.
There’s a place, however, on the wooden fence which skirts the road which shows signs, they tell me, as if some one had got over, and had snapped the top of the rail in doing so.
Bennet was beyond the reach of reason; and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
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