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nouna fencelike barrier composed of one or more horizontal rails supported by widely spaced uprights; balustrade. banister (def. 2). rails collectively. Origin of railingFirst recorded in 1350–1400; rail1 + -ing1 Words nearby railingrail detector car, rail fence, rail gauge, rail gun, railhead, railing, raillery, rail rage, rail rapid transit, railroad, railroader Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for railingSo it was ironic a couple of months later when the Tea Partiers were railing against it—it had already expired. To GOP Congress, as Usual, It’s Welfare on the Chopping Block|Monica Potts|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST According to reports, he received several standing ovations by railing against the government's surveillance programs. Rand Paul's Bill Maher Problem|Jamie Weinstein|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST What he should be railing against with equal passion now is illegal guns. Brooklyn Shooting Hits Close to Bill de Blasio’s Park Slope Home|Michael Daly|July 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST Railing against bigness is the easy part, as the Tea Party is now uncomfortably aware. Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition|James Poulos|October 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He came to Washington railing against the party establishment. How Did Rand Paul Become a Liberal Hero?|David Freedlander|September 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST A brief, fierce trial of strength and he found himself forced over the railing into the water. The Incendiary|W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy Sister Shriner is boiling over with railing toward God's pure little ones. Birth of a Reformation|Andrew Byers But no sooner had he leaned over the railing, than he beckoned to his wife to come over to him. Christ Legends|Selma Lagerlf He said, he had sat down by the side of the railing with his wife, where these ladies came to them. Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. II (of 2)|George Catlin I suppose I must have struck the railing as the thing heaved up. The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet|Kenneth Ward
British Dictionary definitions for railing
noun(often plural) a fence, balustrade, or barrier that consists of rails supported by posts rails collectively or material for making rails Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to railingfence, barrier, rail, siding, pole, banister, bar, rest, balustrade, paling |