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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)

  1. (intransitive) 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
  2. (transitive) To place on a track.
  3. (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
    • They ought to rail off the playground.
  4. (transitive) 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...
  5. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
  6. (slang, transitive) 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

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Adjective

railed (not comparable)

  1. 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

  1. railcards
  2. railcarful
  3. railcarfuls
  4. railcars
  5. raile
  6. railed
  7. railed out
  8. railer
  9. railers
  10. railes
  11. railest

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