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Definition: Split Rail |
Split RailNoun1. A rail that is split from a log. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Split RailSynonym: fence rail (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Split Rail |
| Specialty definitions using "split rail": latches. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Split rail fence up South Fork of the Kentucky River. Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Haystacks and split rail fence near Marion, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. River rushing over rocks II; Rocky stream bed with split rail fence in background. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
split rail fence | 223 |
split rail fencing | 50 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-l-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: spirilla. | |
-2 letters: pillars. | |
-3 letters: pastil, pillar, pistil, plaits, prills, rapist, spiral, spirit, spital, tallis, tapirs, trails, trials, trills. | |
-4 letters: airts, alist, arils, astir, atrip, ilial, lairs, lapis, laris, liars, lilts, liras, litai, litas, pails, pairs, palls, paris, parts, pilar, pilis, pills, pitas, plait, plats, prats, prill, rails, rials, rills, sitar, slipt, spail, spait, spall. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-l-p-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: ipsilateral, pluralistic, pluralities, spiritually, tripletails. | |
+3 letters: puristically, realpolitiks. | |
+4 letters: calligraphist, capillarities, ipsilaterally, parasitically, prismatically, triploblastic. | |
+5 letters: aphoristically, calligraphists, isentropically, legislatorship, pleasurability, pluralizations, presidentially, streptobacilli. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 70 6C 69 74 52 61 69 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110000 01101100 01101001 01110100 00100000 01010010 01100001 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S p l i t   R a i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0070 006C 0069 0074 0052 0061 0069 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5382787586252677578 |
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