rail out

rail out (third-person singular simple present rails out, present participle railing out, simple past and past participle railed out)

1. Synonym of rail (“to complain violently”).
   • a. 1600, Robert Rollocke, “The XVI. Lecture, of the Passion of Christ.”, in H[enry] C[harteris], W[illiam] A[rthur], editors, Lectures, vpon the History of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord Iesus Christ. […], Edinburgh: […] Andro Hart, published 1616, →OCLC, page 148:

     In all this rayling out againſt Him, yee ſee the extreame humiliation of IESVS CHRIST, for our ſinnes: Hee is made of no reputation: No, He is trodde on as a worme: […]

   • 1849, [Adriaen van der Donck], translated by Henry C[ruse] Murphy, “The Administration of Director Stuyvesant in Particular”, in The Representation of New Netherland, Concerning Its Location, Productiveness and Poor Condition. […], New York, N.Y.: Bartlett & Welford, […], →OCLC, page 54:

     If then any body makes opposition, which is not easily done, though he be well grounded, His Honor bursts out immediately in such a fury and makes such gestures, that it is frightful; yea, he rails out frequently at the Councillors for this thing and the other, with ill words which would better suit the fish-market than the Council chamber;—and if this be all endured, His Honor will not rest yet unless he have his will.

   • 1957 January 18, Sally, quoting a villager, “For Ladies Only …”, in Mt. Vernon Register-News, volume XXXVII, number 93, Mount Vernon, Ill., →OCLC, page 7, column 5:

     This mornin’ she rails out at me fer dunkin’ my cooky and she says COFFEE IS FER SIPPIN’ AND NOT FER SAUCERIN’ . . .

   • 1974, Alan Warren Friedman, “Conrad’s Picaresque Narrator: […]”, in Wolodymyr T. Zyla, Wendell M. Aycock, editors, Joseph Conrad, Theory and World Fiction (Proceedings of the Comparative Literature Symposium; 7), Lubbock, Tex.: Texas Tech Press, →OCLC, page 34:

     The tone of Chance is one of casual and bland superiority, and Marlow exhibits intense emotion rarely and incongruously, as when he rails out against confessions after presumably having sought to elicit Flora’s.