Noun : to travel by rail. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to rail at fate. From Dictionary.com.
Posted in code, rails by silvia on the May 21st, 2008. From Wordnik.com. [ginger's thoughts » 2008 » May] Reference
The main rails from Arizona also came through town and ended at the concentrator. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Mexicans on their stamps - Jesus Garcia] Reference
Ruby on rails is a Joke when it comes to running a site that actually has traffic. From Wordnik.com. [Myspace Presentation « The Paradigm Shift] Reference
Now they are stealing the rails from the trains that once ran in the country and in the sugar plantations. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: The Theft of Cables and Scrap Metal] Reference
How about this, did you know more moose are killed on the train rails in winter than anyplace else in Alaska!. From Wordnik.com. [Environmentalists On Hunters] Reference
Yet, Palin rails against socialism with a vengeance all the while covering up her role in perpetuating it in AK. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Deadly Record: Massey’s Mine In Montcoal Has Been Cited For Over 3,000 Violations, Over $2.2 Million In Fines] Reference
Once you understand the assumptions that rails is making, I imagine productivity goes back up to the initial curve. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Rewrite] Reference
They were called his rails, but you never can tell. From Wordnik.com. [The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln]
Before the rails was a fellow playing upon the hautboy. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Some of the carriages had rolled down, and the rails were a wreck. From Wordnik.com. [The Elect Lady] Reference
For some of you, riding the rails might be a first-time experience. From Wordnik.com. [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference
On the rails were a number of freight cars, several of the kind called. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference
Down on the mud-flats at low tide you see birds called rails, and also. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
Well, tucked up nicely on the rails is the Dutch PM Jan Peter Balkenende. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
For domestic hauling, the rails are the preferred method of transportation. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Haskel: When Is It Okay To Refuse A Bottle Of Wine?] Reference
Delays aside, the rails are the safest travel option on the Island right now. From Wordnik.com. [Long Island Press] Reference
We think the feature that has kept this list on the rails is our methodology. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
Light industry can get by with trucking, but I agree ... the rails are the way to go. From Wordnik.com. [The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum] Reference
Aguas Calientes (this part of the rails is the only part that has been restaured until 31 March). From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Coming up fast on the rails is a lavishly illustrated tome by Irishequestrian writer Anne Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference
The second restoration will transform the exterior back to the times when the rails were a bustling industry. From Wordnik.com. [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference
Well, Amtrak gets to its destination without going off the rails, which is more than I can say for our banking system. From Wordnik.com. [No Nation Can Long Endure Half Bankrupt] Reference
That was a mobile home and it looks like it's upside down because the rails were the wheels would be, facing upward here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2007] Reference
For shippers, increased volume on the rails is a double-whammy, because it means their shipments are slowed, but often more expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference
The moonlight streaming down upon the rails was a pleasant sight, and showed me, some time before I reached it, that my goal was at hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Much like what Palin rails against, then pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » NCAA pulls Focus on the Family ad over complaints about the group’s homophobic positions.] Reference
My father put up plexiglass from floor to ceiling on sliding "rails". From Wordnik.com. [kinetic energy] Reference
I think by nature he is sort of an insurgent, a guy who kind of rails against the system. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2007] Reference
Recliner has rubber "rails" on the bottom to hold the stand in place. From Wordnik.com. [Macworld] Reference
You may have noticed we tweaked the type in the "rails" on the right side of our covers. From Wordnik.com. [The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines] Reference
Bridges were broken, canals were choked, rails were twisted. From Wordnik.com. [The Plan And The Man] Reference
And for a time, it looked like the whole venture would come off the rails. From Wordnik.com. [Nixon and Bush] Reference
But as the country's slow-motion fall continues, the man who stands over it rails on. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem For A Revolution] Reference
Workers on the Western end, the Central Pacific line, spiked the first rails in 1863. From Wordnik.com. [Fact-Checking Obama's Speech] Reference
The result is a frenetic concoction -- mostly inspiring and occasionally off the rails. From Wordnik.com. [REVENGE OF THE NERDS] Reference
With a 333hp engine, it goes from zero to 60 in 5.4 seconds and rides like it's on rails. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Guide] Reference
But like millions of other Americans, I've begun riding the rails to work in a bid to save money. From Wordnik.com. [Driving Down Real Estate] Reference
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