inrail
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]inrail (third-person singular simple present inrails, present participle inrailing, simple past and past participle inrailed)
- To enclose or surround with rails.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- it may be reformed and inrailed again by that general authority
Further reading
[edit]- “inrail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.