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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FIFE RAIL

Of unknown origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FIFE RAIL

fife rail play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIFE RAIL

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Fife rail is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FIFE RAIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fife rail

Fife rail

A fife rail is a design element of the bulwarks of a European-style sailing ship used to belay the ship's halyards at the base of a mast. When surrounding a mast, a fife rail is sometimes referred to specifically by the name of the mast with which it is associated: the main fife rail surrounds the main mast; the mizzen fife rail surrounds the mizzen mast, etc. It is one of a dozen or so types of "rails" often found on such ships. Fife rails are typically horizontal strips of either wood or iron and are joined and fitted to the tops of a series of stanchions. The term apparently derives from the location where the ship's fifer would sit and play his fife at heaving of the ship's anchor. Locations of fife rails on a 3-masted sailing ship. A fife rail surrounding a ship's mast will contain a series of belaying pins corresponding to the sails on that mast which they belay. A mast will either have a single horseshoe-shaped fife rail surround the base of the mast on the fore, starboard, and port sides, a single straight rail directly before or directly behind the mast, or a set of two fife rails, one on each side of the mast.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIFE RAIL

fife
fifer
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Fifth Republic
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fifth-generation
fifth-grader

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIFE RAIL

altar rail
bullhead rail
communion rail
curtain rail
dado rail
flanged rail
flat-bottomed rail
free on rail
land rail
light rail
live rail
picture rail
pin rail
plate rail
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third rail
towel rail
trail
water rail

Synonyms and antonyms of fife rail in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fife rail» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FIFE RAIL

Find out the translation of fife rail to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fife rail from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fife rail» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

铁笛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ferrocarril fife
570 millions of speakers

English

fife rail
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुरली रेल
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

فايف السكك الحديدية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дудка железнодорожных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pífano ferroviário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফায়েং রেল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fifre rail
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rel kereta api
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fife Bahn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

横笛レール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

파이프 레일
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Railroad
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đường sắt fife
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஃபைஃப் ரயில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फायर रेल्वे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Boru hattı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ferroviario piffero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szyna fife
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дудка залізничних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Fife feroviar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φλογέρα σιδηροδρομικών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Fife spoor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Fife skena
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fife rail
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fife rail

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FIFE RAIL»

The term «fife rail» is barely ever used and occupies the 205.544 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FIFE RAIL» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIFE RAIL»

Discover the use of fife rail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fife rail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How to Make a Clipper Ship Model
Forward Fife-rail At the foremast there is another fife-rail, with posts of the same dimensions set in the deck, at positions corresponding with those at the main. The construction is the same, except that the fore-and-aft rails are f in. long and are ...
E. Armitage McCann, 1995
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Naval Courts Martial, 1793-1815
I don't think he could, on account of the prisoner's being between the boatswain and the fife rail. When the prisoner was stooping, was his head towards the boatswain or towards the fife rail? His head was towards the fife rail and he was ...
John D. Byrn, 2009
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore
The men fled to the fife-rail. But Mr. Pike, holding his turn, held on, looked squarely into the wall of the wave, and received the downfall. He emerged, still holding by the turn the captured bridge. The feeble-minded faun (the stone-deaf man) led ...
Jack London, 2009
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Popular Science
Reeve the topping lifts through blocks seized under the trestletrees and splice blocks in their ends; through these reeve thin cords, one end of which goes to the bolts in the channels and the other through the outer sheaves in the fife-rail posts.
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The Ship Model Builder's Assistant
came down to the main-fife-rail (Fig. 166) ; but on men-of-war and merchant ships in the early 177o's, when all ships had more or less armament on their decks, this brace, instead of going up under the maintop, was led down forward along the ...
Charles G. Davis, 2012
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Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy
Joshua Scornavacchi had settled on the port side of the fife rail around the mainmast, his feet braced on the rail, his back lying on the tilted deck. Claudene Christian was beside him, and she smiled at him. Then she scampered aft, toward ...
Michael J. Tougias, Douglas A. Campbell, 2014
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Popular Science
The grating effect may be simulated, however, by varnishing the wood and drawing in the holes with India ink. Two nests of six boats each are carried by the Bluenose. Each nest is made in Positions of windlass, bowsprit, fife rail, hawse pipe, ...
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Popular Science
A 3- or 4-in. piece of brass tubing is threaded into a standard pull-chain socket and secured in the top The model is complete with bitts, stanchions, fife rail, belaying pins, and even the foreboom crotch of the mast. The lamp cord runs down ...
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Popular Science
At the right is an extraordinarily realistic photograph of the main fife rail of Captain McCann's model, and above is a sketch of the construction. Note the two half- hidden pumps through the sheave on the tiller and three times around the barrel,  ...
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By Force of Arms
He glanced around, then seized a coil of line from the pinrail and tossed a midshipman's hitch around the anchor cable that still lay on the deck, making the stopper fast to the fife rail. At that moment Mr. Appleby, apparently considering the ...
James L. Nelson, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIFE RAIL»

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Reopening Leven mouth railway 'could slash billions from welfare bill'
Rival football fans will team up to help Fife rail link bid · Fife rail campaigners welcome step forward. DON'T MISS. Threatened with a shovel ... «The Courier, Jun 15»
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Fife rail campaigners welcome step forward
Fife rail campaigners welcome step forward. By Claire Warrender, 12 May 2015 12.40pm. Allen Armstrong says expertise is needed to make sure the rail line ... «The Courier, May 15»
3
Kincardine in line for passenger return?
... of the closure of Longannet Power Station also gives rise to an enhanced opportunity to utilise the track for a West Fife rail passenger service. «Dunfermline Press, May 15»
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Severe disruption to Fife Circle trains
WEST Fife rail commuters face severe disruptions on the Fife Circle line this afternoon (Thursday), Scotrail has warned. Byline Siew Peng Lee «Dunfermline Press, Dec 14»
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Levenmouth rail link campaigners given new hope
Fife rail campaigners welcome step forward · Rival football fans will team up to help Fife rail link bid · Reopening Leven mouth railway 'could ... «The Courier, Aug 14»
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Bid to quell Levenmouth rail link row
Fife rail campaigners welcome step forward · Reopening Leven mouth ... Rival football fans will team up to help Fife rail link bid. DON'T MISS ... «The Courier, Jun 14»
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Council chiefs urged to get behind Levenmouth rail link campaign
Fife rail campaigners welcome step forward · Cities link proposal to help Fife prosper · Scotland's railway stations to benefit from £30m of ... «The Courier, Apr 14»
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Shipwrecked By Hurricane Sandy: The Strange Tale Of The Sinking …
Scornavacchi thanked Svendsen, and joined deckhand Claudene Christian, 42, near the mizzen fife rail, which surrounded the aftermost mast. «Popular Science, Mar 13»
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Chantey Sing invites everyone to join in
The singers spill out of the shelter deck and onto the main fife rail, lining up in the wind to get a cup of cider from the galley. After the break, they ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Sep 11»
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Buses, cyclists and pedestrians to have their own Forth road bridge
A train station is to be built on the Fife rail line near Gyle on the outskirts of Edinburgh, linking with the Edinburgh tram network and Edinburgh ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 08»

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