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Definition of Rail off
1. Verb. Separate with a railing. "Rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rail Off
Literary usage of Rail off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1831)
"... ae to leave the wool insufficiently clean, it пяя been proposed by Young, In
hie Calendar, to rail off* a portion of the water in a stream or pond (jig. ..."
2. Trial of John Y. Beall: As a Spy and Guerrillero, by Military Commission by John Yates Beall (1865)
"We went on the railroad to a point I suppose five or six miles from the city—we
four; we tried to get a rail off the track. Q. How did you try ? ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius: In the Courts of Queen's by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Andrew Valentine Kirwan, Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1850)
"... or is the negligence of the defendant, in omitting to rail off an that it may'
be area abutting on a public footway, and appurtenant to a pa"^erg°by j° ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1869)
"The declaration alleged that the death of the deceased was caused by the negligence
of the defendant, in omitting to rail off an area abutting on a public ..."
5. Railway Track and Track Work by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman (1897)
"Sometimes six men (or eight for long rails) are on the car, and with tongs slide
the rail off. while eight men on the track haul the projecting end outside ..."
6. Railway Track and Track Work by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman (1897)
"Sometimes six men (or eight for long rails) are on the car. and with tongs slide
the rail off. while eight men on the track hanl the projecting end outside ..."
7. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1890)
"Under the Caesars, iron grilles were need in amphitheatres by the Romans, to rail
off the arena ; and bronze or iron grilles, ..."
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