safety rail

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   a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety

   Synonymsguardrail

   Broaderrailing

Questions about safety rail

What does safety rail mean?

safety rail means "a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety".

What is another word for safety rail?

Close synonyms include guardrail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is safety rail a common word?

safety rail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.