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fife-rail Naut.|faɪfˈreɪl|
[Said by sailors to be so called because the fifer sat on this rail while the anchor was being got in.]
†a. ‘Rails forming the upper fence of the bulwarks on each side of the quarter-deck and poop in men-of-war’ (Adm. Smyth, 1867) (obs.).
b. The rail round the main-mast, encircling both it and the pumps and furnished with belaying pins for the running rigging.
1721–1800Bailey, Fife Rails. 1804A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. Pref. 19 Drift-rails, fife-rails, sheer-rails, waist-rails, etc. 1881W. C. Russell Ocean Free-Lance II. iv. 168 [It] whitened the rigging and the fife-rails. |