What is "footrail"

Usage examples of "footrail".

I had to say something, anything, to draw attention from the fact that Ben had rested a hand on the garlanded footrail while probing in his pocket for change.

When she sat, she unconsciously pressed back against the footrail as she had against the door, but her mother understood: Tonight her daughter would grow up in a way neither of them wanted.

Motionless, where it had been placed against the footrail of the bed, the baby sat with its black eyes closed.

The mahogany bar with its brass footrail and cuspidors went nearly the length of the room.

The brass footrail along the length of the bar dully reflected the oil lamplight.

The counter is polished mahogany with a footrail, the kind John Wayne might belly up to and ask for a bottle of red whiskey, and a hundred different kinds of liquor bottles are racked on the irregular shelving behind it.

On the right side stretched a mahogany bar with a brass footrail and surprisingly up-to-date beer pumps, guarding racks of bottles and drinking vessels.

Banner awake, dressed only in his button-up shirt, and leaning against the brass footrail of the bed with a sketch pad on her knees.

To the perimeter of the lobby is bolted a heavy brass footrail with ornate cuspidors in the corners.

He carried his coffee toward the bedroom and I followed, sitting on the footrail of his water bed while he disappeared into the bathroom.

It was a wide, old-fashioned bed with brass knobs upon the footrail, a big one at each corner and little ones in between.

The bar top, the tables and the floor were exceptionally clean, and brass footrails and spittoons gleamed with a high polish.

Hooking a boot heel over the brass footrail, he ordered a beer and listened to the trio trying to top each other with wild stories of past places of employment.