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guide rail

American  

noun

  1. a track or rail designed to control the movement of an object, as a door or window.


Example Sentences

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The tractor-trailer overturned and began to go over the guide rail of a bridge, according to New York State Police.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024

State police said the bus driver lost control and the bus struck a center guide rail then an embankment and traveled approximately 150 feet into a wooded area before coming to a stop.

From Fox News • Sep. 19, 2021

“People want a guide rail to hang onto, which fiction can provide.”

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2017

Part of the undercarriage of the train acts as the motor's fixed coils, while a vertical guide rail in the center of the pathway takes the place of its spinning rotor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up a narrow, steep, wooden stairway between two walls of solid masonry, not over two feet apart, we passed, and arrived on a none too stable wooded runway with a guide rail on either side.

From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd