footrail

noun

Etymology

From foot + rail.

  1. derived from regula
  2. derived from reille
  3. derived from regol
  4. derived from rail
  5. compounded as footrail — “foot + rail

Definitions

  1. A rail serving as a support for the foot.

    • People clung in dense swaying masses, like clusters of insects, to the platforms and footrails of the battered streetcar trains, groaning and jangling their way through the confusion.

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