Noun: railing
| Singular | railing |
| Plural | railings |
Sample Sentences
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During the war, everyone's railings were taken away to make bombers.
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We passed through an inner courtyard overladen with fake wrought-iron railings and accents badly in need of a paint job, evoking a kind of Woolworth's Vieux Carré. [1989, The Advocate, numbers 515-521, page 28:]
Nouns inflected like railing
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
By surface analysis, rail + -ing.
Verbs referencing "railing"
German Nouns
Reling, Dutch Nouns
reling, Swedish Nouns
reling.