Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who makes or furnishes rails.
  • noun One who rails, scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.

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  • noun One who rails.

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Examples

  • Reagan was a de-railer in a lot of ways by Margaret Bassett on Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 7: 27: 18 PM

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: High-Speed Rail: Can it Work in the US? 2009

  • “Silence, thou malicious railer!” said the host; “and let instant apology be made to me, and the wine which you have calumniated, or I will instantly command the supper to be postponed till midnight.”

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • Me, MYSELF and I WILL be pissing in our pants with excitement, once that railer comes out!!

    Filmstalker: Actual Transformers footage online 2006

  • Oh, you railer at royalty and slanderer of all that is noble and good!

    The Virginians 2006

  • Their country admires them, their Sovereign rewards them, and PUNCH, the universal railer, takes off his hat and, says, Heaven save them!

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • He had marked First Corinthians, 5:11:But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one, no, not to eat... put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

    Honey V.C. Andrews 2001

  • But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one, no, not to eat.

    1 Corinthians 5. 1999

  • But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

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