What is the meaning of rails?

noun

• A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
  • synonyms: railing, rail
• Short for railway.
  • usage: "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety"
  • synonyms: rail
• A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll.
  • synonyms: track, rail, runway
• A horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal.
  • synonyms: 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.
  • synonyms: rail
• A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll.
  • synonyms: track, rail, runway

verb

• Complain bitterly.
  • synonyms: rail, inveigh
• Enclose with rails.
  • usage: "rail in the old graves"
  • synonyms: rail, rail in
• Provide with rails.
  • usage: "The yard was railed"
  • synonyms: rail
• Separate with a railing.
  • usage: "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
  • synonyms: rail, rail off
• Convey (goods etc.) by rails.
  • usage: "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
  • synonyms: rail
• Travel by rail or train.
  • usage: "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg"
  • synonyms: train, rail
• Lay with rails.
  • usage: "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
  • synonyms: rail
• Fish with a handline over the rails of a boat.
  • usage: "They are railing for fresh fish"
  • synonyms: rail
• Spread negative information about.
  • usage: "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"
  • synonyms: vilify, revile, vituperate, rail
• Criticize severely.
  • usage: "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
  • synonyms: fulminate, rail