foot rail

noun Furniture.

a stretcher connecting the legs of a piece of furniture, as a chair or table, upon which the feet may be rested.

Origin of foot rail

First recorded in 1865–70

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The boy flung himself on the bed with his back against the foot-rail.
The Triumph of John Kars
Ridgwell Cullum
They were placed on a stove,—on a red-hot stove with a loafers' foot-rail about it.
Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
Various
Peter interlaced his fingers round one knee and settled himself comfortably against the foot-rail.
The Arrival of Jimpson
Ralph Henry Barbour
He was the man who flung himself upon the foot-rail of that plunging engine.
One of My Sons
Anna Katharine Green
And then he hitched it to the foot-rail where I couldn't help seeing it every time I looked that way.
Heart of Gold
Ruth Alberta Brown