RAIL IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rail in mean? 

• RAIL IN (verb)
  The verb RAIL IN has 1 sense:

1. enclose with rails

  Familiarity information: RAIL IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAIL IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose with rails

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

rail; rail in

Context example:

rail in the old graves

Hypernyms (to "rail in" is one way to...):

confine; enclose; hold in (close in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

There’s a place, however, on the wooden fence which skirts the road which shows signs, they tell me, as if some one had got over, and had snapped the top of the rail in doing so.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Only one man knew what had happened to him, and that was me, for, with my own eyes, I saw the skipper tip up his heels and put him over the rail in the middle watch of a dark night, two days before we sighted the Shetland Lights.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)