rail
noun
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
railless
-
a word derived from
rail.
Example Sentences
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She toiled painfully up the railless stairs, stopping often for breath.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
You will find them everywhere in the railless lands, the freighters and their teams.
From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by Putnam, George Palmer
A quarry which a dead relative had bequeathed to him had had sufficient attraction to bring him across the sea and across this railless region.
From A Dozen Ways Of Love by Dougall, Lily
Three railless plank gangways connected her with the wharf, and down two of the planks Majorcans in their elaborately bepatched blue linen suits were carrying straw baskets of coal.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart
He seated himself at the edge of the narrow, railless veranda along which the growing plants were ranged.
From The Dragon Painter by Fenollosa, Mary McNeil
