rerail

English

Etymology

re- +‎ rail

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪl

Verb

rerail (third-person singular simple present rerails, present participle rerailing, simple past and past participle rerailed)

1. (rail transport, transitive) To replace on the rails.
2. To renew the rails in a railway line.

Alternative forms

• re-rail

Derived terms

• rerailer

References

• “re-rail”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rerail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• irreal, railer