railed
railed is the simple past and past participle of rail.
Meaning of rail
Verb
rail (third-person singular simple present rails, present participle railing, simple past and past participle railed)
- To travel by railway.
- Mottram of the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert […]1890, Rudyard Kipling, At the End of the Passage
- To place on a track.
- To enclose with rails or a railing.
- They ought to rail off the playground.
- To range in a line.
- They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
- To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- All I can think about is being seventeen days sober and desperate to rail a line of blow after last night's group outing to see Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (at my request), which, in hindsight, was a fucking dumb thing for a rehab to approve of.2025 May 27, Tommy Dorfman, “Finding God”, in Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation, Harlequin, →ISBN
Adjective
railed (not comparable)
- Furnished with a rail or railing.
- Tullis Street is the name and 40 the number. Here it is, one of a row, flat-faced, dull-coloured and commonplace, with railed steps leading up to a discoloured door, and one front-room window, in which a huge gilt-edged Bible upon a small round table reassures the timid visitor.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
Words formed from railed
Phrases with railed
Questions about railed
- What does railed mean?
- Railed means furnished with a rail or railing.
- What is railed the simple past and past participle of?
- Railed is the simple past and past participle of rail.
- What part of speech is railed?
- Railed is an adjective.
Words near railed in the dictionary
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