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)
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Rayle
Rayle (plural Rayles)
- A surname.
Forms of rayle
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | rayles |
| present participle | rayling |
| past participle | rayled |
| past | rayled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Rayles |
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
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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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