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rail

/ɹeɪ(ə)l/ verbo C2
  1. To travel by railway. (intransitive)
  2. To place on a track. (transitive)
  3. To enclose with rails or a railing. (transitive) · They ought to rail off the playground.
  4. To range in a line. (transitive)
  5. To sexually penetrate in a rough manner. (slang, transitive)
  6. To snort a line of powdered drugs. (slang, transitive)

He/she/it rails · Pasado railed · Participio pasado railed · Forma en -ing railing

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“There are no trains before six in the morning; so he can’t get away by rail.
The Valley of Fear, p. 31 · C1
“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.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 6 · B2
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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 85 · B2
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.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 68 · B2

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