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footrail

footrail noun: a rail serving as a support for the foot.

Noun

footrail (plural footrails)

  1. A rail serving as a support for the foot.
    • By removing the marble counters, brass footrails and high stools in the coffee shop adjunct of the main dining room, and replacing them by colorful tables and chairs, and soda fountain and snack bar, the room has been made more attractive […]1943, Canadian Transportation, volume 46, page 623
    • People clung in dense swaying masses, like clusters of insects, to the platforms and footrails of the battered streetcar trains, groaning and jangling their way through the confusion.1989, George Frost Kennan, The Decision to Intervene, page 11

Forms of footrail

pluralfootrails

Origin of footrail

From foot + rail.

Questions about footrail

What does footrail mean?
Footrail means a rail serving as a support for the foot.
What part of speech is footrail?
Footrail is a noun.
What is the plural of footrail?
The plural of footrail is footrails.

Words near footrail in the dictionary

  1. footraced
  2. footracer
  3. footracers
  4. footraces
  5. footracing
  6. footrail
  7. footrails
  8. footrest
  9. footrests
  10. footrim
  11. footroom

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