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hitching rails

hitching rails is the plural of hitching rail.

Meaning of hitching rail

Noun

hitching rail (plural hitching rails)

  1. A horizontal rail with vertical supports to which a horse can be hitched, or tied up to.
    • It was a gala occasion. There was no room at the public hitching rail for another animal, mules and wagons were parked under every available tree.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

Questions about hitching rails

What is hitching rails the plural of?
Hitching rails is the plural of hitching rail.

Words near hitching rails in the dictionary

  1. hitching one's wagon to
  2. hitching one's wagon to a star
  3. hitching post
  4. hitching posts
  5. hitching rail
  6. hitching rails
  7. hitching up
  8. hitching-bar
  9. hitching-bars
  10. hitchings
  11. Hitchins

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