| rail | 1. A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc. 2. A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. 3. A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc. 4. The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks. The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed. Rail fence. See Fence. Rail guard. A device attached to the front of a locomotive on each side for clearing the rail obstructions. A guard rail. See Guard. Rail joint, a train of rolls in a rolling mill, for making rails for railroads from blooms or billets. Origin: Akin to LG. & Sw. Regel bar, bolt, G. Riegel a rail, bar, or bolt, OHG, rigil, rigel, bar, bolt, and possibly to E. Row a line. <ornithology> Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds. The common European water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is called also bilcock, skitty coot, and brook runner. The best known American species are the clapper rail, or salt-marsh hen (Rallus lonqirostris, var. Crepitans); the king, or red-breasted, rail (R. Elegans) (called also fresh water marshhen); the lesser clapper, or Virginia, rail (R. Virginianus); and the Carolina, or sora, rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora. <zoology> Land rail, the corncrake. Origin: F. Rale, fr. Raler to have a rattling in the throat; of German origin, and akin to E. Rattle. See Rattle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| railgun accelerator | <radiobiology> Projectile accelerator which accelerates the particle using electromagnetic forces which arise when the particle completes an electrical circuit between two conducting rails connected to a source of high current. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Raillietina | A genus of tapeworms (family Davaineidae, order Cyclophyllidea), three species of which, Raillietina madagascariensis or Raillietina demerariensis, Raillietina asiatica, and Raillietina formsana, have been found in humans. However, the identification of many of these worms found in man has been questioned. (05 Mar 2000) |
| raillietiniasis | Infection of rodents and monkeys, and occasionally man, with tapeworms of the genus Raillietina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| railroad disease | An acute disease seen in cattle and sheep during and shortly after shipping; it appears most often in females in advanced pregnancy and is believed to be precipitated by stress, lack of food and water, and perhaps heat. Synonym: railroad disease, railroad sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| railroad nystagmus | Nystagmus induced by looking at moving visual stimuli. Synonym: opticokinetic nystagmus, railroad nystagmus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| railroad sickness | An acute disease seen in cattle and sheep during and shortly after shipping; it appears most often in females in advanced pregnancy and is believed to be precipitated by stress, lack of food and water, and perhaps heat. Synonym: railroad disease, railroad sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| railroads | Permanent roads having a line of rails fixed to ties and laid to gage, usually on a leveled or graded ballasted roadbed and providing a track for freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock. Cars are designed to be drawn by locomotives or sometimes propelled by self-contained motors. (12 Dec 1998) |
| railway | 1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway. 2. The road, track, etc, with al the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc, pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver. Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States. In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: Atmospheric railway, Elevated railway, etc. See Atmospheric, Elevated, etc. Cable railway. See Cable road, under Cable. Perry railway, a submerged track on which an elevated platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water course. Gravity railway, a railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines. Railway brake, a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives. Railway car, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. Railway carriage, a railway passenger car. Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars. Railway slide. See Transfer table. <medicine> Railway spine, an abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents. It is characterised by ataxia and other disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral disturbance, the symptoms often not developing till some months after the injury. Underground railroad or railway. A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city. Formerly, a system of cooperation among certain active antislavery people in the United States, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada. Origin: In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was used] "Their house was a principal entrepot of the underground railroad." . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| water rail | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| rail | any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud |
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| rail | a horizontal bar (usually of wood) |
| rail | short for railway |
| rail | a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports |
| rail | a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll |
| rail | criticize severely |
| rail | spread negative information about |
| rail | complain bitterly |
| rail | fish with a hand-line aver the rails of a boat |
| rail | lay with rails |
| rail | travel by rail or train |
| rail | convey (goods etc.) by rails |
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