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rode the rail

rode the rail is the simple past of ride the rail.

Meaning of ride the rail

Verb

ride the rail (third-person singular simple present rides the rail, present participle riding the rail, simple past rode the rail, past participle ridden the rail)

  1. (historical) To be made to ride the horse (punishment device).

Questions about rode the rail

What is rode the rail the simple past of?
Rode the rail is the simple past of ride the rail.

Words near rode the rail in the dictionary

  1. rode the cotton pony
  2. rode the crest of the wave
  3. rode the fair
  4. rode the high horse
  5. rode the pine
  6. rode the rail
  7. rode the rails
  8. rode the rods
  9. rode the short bus
  10. rode the three-legged mare
  11. rode the tiger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rode the rail (page history and authors); ride the 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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