Crossword clues for railing
railing
- Barrier - complaining bitterly
- In poor health, propping up the head of Roger Bannister
- Haranguing - horizontal bar on supports
- Porch protection
- Metal fence
- Hand support in a staircase
- Flight-safety instrument
- Complaining bitterly — barrier
- Complaining bitterly
- Barrier of a horizontal bar and supports
- Barrier — complaining bitterly
- Banister
- What's up for grabs?
- A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- Complain bitterly
- Spread negative information about
- Criticize severely
- Complaint from the bar
- Complaining one side's weak
- Fulminating in a bad way, Republican takes lead
- Fence of metal bars
- Barrier consisting of bars
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Railing \Rail"ing\, a. Expressing reproach; insulting.
Angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not
railing accusation against them.
--2 Pet. ii.
11.
Railing \Rail"ing\, n.
A barrier made of a rail or of rails, together with vertical supports. The typical railing in the interior of structures or on porches has a horizontal rail near waist height, and multiple vertical supports. Its function is usually to provide a safety barrier at the edge of a verticle drop to prevent falls.
Rails in general; also, material for making rails.
Rail \Rail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Railed (r[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Railing.]
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To inclose with rails or a railing.
It ought to be fenced in and railed.
--Ayliffe. -
To range in a line. [Obs.]
They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"construction in which rails form an important part," early 15c., verbal noun from rail (v.2). Technically, railings (late 15c.) are horizontal, palings are vertical.
Wiktionary
n. A fence or barrier consisting of one or more horizontal rails and vertical supports. vb. (present participle of rail English)
WordNet
n. a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports [syn: rail]
material for making rails or rails collectively
Wikipedia
Railing or railings may refer to:
- Guard rail, a structure blocking an area from access
- Handrail, a structure designed to provide support on or near a staircase
- Grab bar, a structure to provide support elsewhere, for instance in a bathroom or kitchen
- Insufflation (medicine), the act of inhaling a substance, generally a drug
- "Railing," a song by Roni Size / Reprazent on the album New Forms
Usage examples of "railing".
Clambering back over the railing, Alec caught hold of two carved balusters and hung by his fingers.
Tappng his pipe out on the railing above Alec, the man disappeared back into the room.
He stuck his hands in his alpaca pockets and leaned back against the railing.
He advanced between the ranks of assembled Lords and made his bow before the railing that fronted the pyramidal dais.
Tielen soldiers everywhere: lining the quay as Astasia disembarked, guarding the Water Gate, and patrolling the outer walls where the rebels had smashed down the iron railings as they stormed the palace.
I made my way to the poor child, who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw, and found him very hot and frightened and crying loudly, fixed by the neck between two iron railings, while a milkman and a beadle, with the kindest intentions possible, were endeavouring to drag him back by the legs, under a general impression that his skull was compressible by those means.
She had lost it, railing and ranting at Bevel two ship nights before, demanding they leave immediately.
He ordered building materials and sent to Baja California for craftsmen smiths, ceramists, woodcarvers, painters who in no time at all added a second floor, long arched corridors, tile floors, a balcony in the dining room, a bandstand in the patio, the better to enjoy the musicians, small Moorish fountains, wrought-iron railings, carved wood doors, and windows with painted panes.
A little pipe coiled away behind the hutches and disappeared over the railings into the boiler below.
Chance wrenched open the front door and made one stride before he managed to bring himself to a halt, his face scratched, his clothes caught in the barbs of coiled dannert wire piled high in the porch and across the narrow strip between the railings and the front window.
She slipped out through the light trap past Dobbie and the Squadron Leader, and went to the far end, finishing with a little run up to the railing.
After stuffing his packs into a doorless cubby at the foot of his too-short bunk and laying the black staff to one side, Justen made his way topside, where he joined Krytella at the starboard railing of the Clartham, midway between the bowsprit and the paddles.
After a moment she moved down across the grass to her car while Paul Arnussen turned his back with calm deliberation and went on fitting dowels into the wooden railing.
At the turn lay the pond with yellow duckweed and a bent iron railing that divided it to keep the cows from crossing.
Being angry with Dunster, in any event, seemed as futile as raging at the rain that fell each day when it was meant to be summer, or yelling curses at the traffic in the Commercial Road all the way to work, or railing at the fact of death.