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rayle

rayle is the obsolete form 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

See all 22 meanings of rail

Proper noun capitalized: Rayle

Rayle (plural Rayles)

  1. A surname.

Forms of rayle

Verb
third-person singular presentrayles
present participlerayling
past participlerayled
pastrayled
Proper noun
pluralRayles

Questions about rayle

What does rayle mean?
Rayle means a surname.
What is rayle the obsolete form of?
Rayle is the obsolete form of rail.
What part of speech is rayle?
Rayle is a proper noun.

Words near rayle in the dictionary

  1. Rayist
  2. Rayists
  3. rayite
  4. Rayl
  5. Raylan
  6. rayle
  7. rayled
  8. rayleigh
  9. Rayleigh jet
  10. Rayleigh jets
  11. Rayleigh quotient

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rayle (page history and authors); Rayle (page history and authors); rail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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