Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
rail , rail, etc.
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Examples
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Tucker haz a bery slim tayle, ai alwaiz callz it hurr rayle tayle
and den i dunk like dis - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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June 1, 2010 at 9:05 am basement kat rayle kars at ur servis nao!
Subway cat available - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Dan haz veddy thortfully bringed a towel rayle. stagehanddan says:
dis ur kid? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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They appointed officers to bring me, mine interpreter, and the other, through the great presse within the rayle or barre, and permitted me to sit downe some distance from them: the aduerse parties being without at the barre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now it fell out so that the balcone windows were open, and he went to the rayle and made an offer to leap over, and asked what if he should leap over there.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Now it fell out so that the balcone windows were open, and he went to the rayle and made an offer to leap over, and asked what if he should leap over there.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/May 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Now it fell out so that the balcone windows were open, and he went to the rayle and made an offer to leap over, and asked what if he should leap over there.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Now it fell out so that the balcone windows were open, and he went to the rayle and made an offer to leap over, and asked what if he should leap over there.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661
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But dreame no longer of this vaine hope from Powhatan, not that I will longer forbeare to force you, from your Idlenesse, and punish you if you rayle.
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They appointed officers to bring me, mine interpreter, and the other, through the great presse within the rayle or barre, and permitted me to sit downe some distance from them: the aduerse parties being without at the barre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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