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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

railinged en · ADJ

Etymology

From railing + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, not-comparable) Having railings.
    • Three levels of booklined shelves encircle the room, protected behind railinged galleries connected by a steep staircase. 2001, Neil Baldwin, Edison: inventing the century:
    • On the apron near the terminal, on the railinged roof of the terminal with the sightseers and relatives, behind glass. 1990, Craig Thoman, Wildcat:
    • Halfway to the front, two airmen were manning a small machine-gun position - two pedestal-mounted weapons set on a railinged platform - but as yet they weren't firing. 2010, Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World: