1. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
   "They installed a railing along the steep staircase for safety";
   - rail
    
2. Material for making rails or rails collectively
   "The shipment of railing arrived for the new fence project"

1. Complain bitterly
   "He railed against the injustice";
   - inveigh
    
2. Criticize severely
   "She railed against the bad social policies";
   - fulminate
    
3. Enclose with rails
   "rail in the old graves";
   - rail in
    
4. (architecture) provide with rails
   "The yard was railed"
    
5. Separate with a railing
   "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace";
   - rail off
    
6. Lay with rails
   "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
    
7. Convey (goods etc.) by rails
   "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
    
8. Travel by rail or train
   "They railed from Rome to Venice";
   - train
    
9. Fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
   "They are railing for fresh fish"

Derived forms: railings

Type of: barrier, complain, confine, denounce, denunciate, divide, enclose, fish, furnish, hold in, kick [informal], kvetch [N. Amer, informal], lay, material, moan, offer, plain [archaic], provide, put down, render, repose, ride, separate, sound off, supply, transport

Part of: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail

Encyclopedia: Railing