fife rail

1. 1.

   the railing surrounding the mast of a sailing vessel

   Broaderrailing

Questions about fife rail

What does fife rail mean?

fife rail means "the railing surrounding the mast of a sailing vessel".

Is fife rail a common word?

fife rail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.