Crossword clues for guardrail
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
guardrail \guard"rail`\ n. a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety.
Syn: safety rail.
Wiktionary
alt. A rail placed alongside a dangerous place in order to improve safety. n. A rail placed alongside a dangerous place in order to improve safety.
WordNet
n. a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety [syn: safety rail]
Wikipedia
Guardrail can refer to
- Guard rail, a system designed to keep people or vehicles from (in most cases unintentionally) straying into dangerous or off-limits areas.
- Guard rail (or guardrail) is another term used in North America to refer to traffic barriers that are installed on road sides or medians (central reservations) for automobile safety
- Guard rails (railroad) installed parallel to trackbed rails, for railway safety
- RC-12 Guardrail, a U.S. Army intelligence-gathering aircraft based on the C-12 Huron
- Roof edge protection, rails installed on roofs to protect construction and roofing workers
Usage examples of "guardrail".
The lee gunwhale dipped and the sea reached up for her, spouting from the feet of the guardrail stanchions.
The only thing separating brave joggers from a fifty-foot fall into the Intracoastal Waterway was a waist-high guardrail.
Others wanted every possible hazard of the parks eliminated by boardwalks, guardrails, fences, signs, and signposts every few feet, despite the fact that every known and unknown hazard could never be completely eliminated by structures or regulations any more than traffic hazards could be eliminated from the L.
The boat had filled quickly, and by the time the Copelands arrived, after a frantic last-minute bemo ride, clutching guardrails, their baggage, one another, through the narrowest, bumpiest, crookedest streets in town, they were lucky to claim a patch of space the size of a throw rug on the padded floor mats near the starboard side.
Until they came swarming over the guardrails, waving swords and axes and screaming curses against Humanity.
The humans and the toys had to cling to the guardrails to avoid being swept away.
A third gunman covered two ticonderoga seamen who were stationed at lowered guardrails to catch and steady men as they stepped or jumped from the afterdeck of the campari to that of the ticonderoga as the two ships rolled together.
There are, however, strong metal guardrails encircling the bridge, similar to the one seen in The Original Series, for the crew to clutch on to as they are tossed about.
It sailed up over the guardrails, through the cables, plunging off the middle span of the Ambassador Bridge.
The ship rocked, and the artificial gravity hiccupped enough to send her backpedaling on her heels, off-balance, and slamming into the guardrail.
He stopped as close as possible to the guardrail, over which lush oleander bushes loomed like a great cresting green tide.
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As you roll nervously into the acceleration lane, the Turquoise Mountain rises majestically over the guardrail.
The tank slid forward at forty kph, grinding the concertina wire between the guardrail and the vehicle's own hundred and seventy tonnes.
The tank slid forward at forty kph, grinding the concertina wire between the guardrail and the vehicles own hundred and seventy tonnes.