raileth

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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