n. A bar of wood or other material passing from one post or other support to another.n. A structure consisting of rails and their sustaining posts, balusters, or pillars, and constituting an inclosure or line of division: often used in the plural, and also called a railing.n. In joinery, a horizontal timber in a piece of framing or paneling.n. Nautical, one of several bars or timbers in a ship, serving for inclosure or support.n. One of the iron or (now generally) steel bars or beams used on the permanent way of a railway to support and guide the wheels of cars and motors.n. The railway or railroad as a means of transport: as, to travel or send goods by railroadingn. In cotton-spinning, a bar having an up-and-down motion, by which yarn passing through is guided upon the bar and is distributed upon the bobbins.To inclose with rails: often with in or off.To furnish with rails; lay the rails of, as a railway; construct a railway upon or along, as a street.To fish with a hand-line over the rail of a ship or boat.To range in a line; set in order.n. A garment; dress; robe: now only in the compound night-rail.n. A kerchief.To dress; clothe.n. A bird of the subfamily Rallinæ, and especially of the genus Rallus; a water-rail, land-rail, marsh-hen, or crake.To speak bitterly, opprobriously, or reproachfully; use acrimonious expressions; scoff; inveigh.Synonyms of rail at. To upbraid, scold or scold at or scold about, inveigh against, abuse, objurgate. Railing and scolding are always undignified, if not improper; literally, abusing is improper; all three words may by hyperbole be used for talk which is proper.To scoff at; taunt; scold; banter; affect by railing or raillery.To run; flow.