Word Meanings - BREASTRAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

• Quarterage
  A quarterly allowance.
• Railing
  of Rail
• Quarter-deck
  That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
• Railingly
  With scoffing or insulting language.
• Balcony
  A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
• Quarterfoil
  An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
• Raillery
  Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
• Quarterhung
  Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; -- said of a cannon.
• Railleur
  A banterer; a jester; a mocker.
• Heightened
  of Heighten
• Quarterly
  Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
• Railroad
  Alt. of Railway
• Heightening
  of Heighten
• Quarterlies
  of Quarterly
• Railway
  A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
• Heighten
  To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
• Quartermaster
  An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
• Railroading
  The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.

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