HANDRAIL Synonyms

• a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

• a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety

• the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

• a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports

• short for railway

• a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll

• a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)

• any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud

• complain bitterly

• enclose with rails

• provide with rails

• separate with a railing

• convey (goods etc.) by rails

• travel by rail or train

• lay with rails

• fish with a handline over the rails of a boat

• spread negative information about

• criticize severely

• a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

• a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

• English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)