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railing

/ˈɹeɪlɪŋ/ noun B2
  1. A fence or barrier consisting of one or more horizontal rails and vertical supports. · During the war, everyone's railings were taken away to make bombers.

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His native accent rattled like a stick upon railings.
The Valley of Fear, p. 61 · C1
With an air of nonchalance which, under the circumstances, seemed to me to border upon affectation, he lounged up and down the pavement, and gazed vacantly at the ground, the sky, the opposite houses and the line of railings.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 27 · B2
He was at the gate when I came out, a-leanin’ up agin the railings, and a-singin’ at the pitch o’ his lungs about Columbine’s New-fangled Banner, or some such stuff.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 43 · B2
If you examine the roofs you will find that they are slightly rounded, and there is no railing round them.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 28 · B2

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