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railing

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railing [′rāl·iŋ]
(civil engineering)
A barrier consisting of a rail and supports.
(electronics)
Radar pulse jamming at high recurrence rates (50 to 150 kilohertz); it results in an image on a radar indicator resembling fence railing.

railing
1. Rails, collectively, or a combination of rails.
2. Any openwork construction or rail used as a barrier or the like.


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John Jasper, on his way home through the Close, is brought to a stand-still by the spectacle of Stony Durdles, dinner-bundle and all, leaning his back against the iron railing of the burial-ground enclosing it from the old cloister-arches; and a hideous small boy in rags flinging stones at him as a well-defined mark in the moonlight.
"He was a sharp satirist, but with more railing and scoffery than became a poet-laureate,"* said one.
I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me may grasp me
 
 
 
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