Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of rail.

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Examples

  • It is pretty perfect for what I need in the hot afternoon - AND I can get one for 1,500R (reil) (Which is just over 25 cents) – a soda pop in our old town cost more than that, and just think how much healthier this is.

    Smoothies Will 2008

  • It is pretty perfect for what I need in the hot afternoon - AND I can get one for 1,500R (reil) (Which is just over 25 cents) – a soda pop in our old town cost more than that, and just think how much healthier this is.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Will 2008

  • During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Joo gots sum reil nots tehr en joor showldr area.. a liddle tents, r wees?

    I HAS SLAIN DA DRAGON - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

    Blogbot - forsiden 2008

  • During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

    Blogbot - forsiden 2008

  • & C. as thofe in Ghent and Bruges, and the reil of the towns in Brabant and Flanderi.

    The Works of Laurence Sterne 1795

  • During Mr. Pope's war Vv-'ith Theobald, Concanen, and the reil of their tribe,

    The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

  • The leader of a faftion, is plain language s but, becaufe the head is the principal part of the human body, and is fup** pofed to dired all the animal pperatioiis reil«

    Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: By Hugh Blair, ... In Three Volumes ... 1787

  • • Among the Hottentots, as well as in all probability among the reil of mankind difperfed over the whole globe, we mud acknow - ledge the fair-fex to be the mod modefl: for the females of this na - tion cover themfclves much more fcrupuloufly than the men« They feldom content themfelves with one covering, but almofl: always have two, aird very often three.

    The Monthly Review 1786

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