railing

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a fence made from a series of vertical metal posts, or one of these posts:

Tourists pressed their faces against the palace railings.

Down the street, stark iron railings surround the properties.

She was impaled on a railing after falling 21ft from her hotel room.

a row of posts and the wooden or metal bar on top of them, that are used on stairs to hold on to:

You can assume that all public surfaces, like stair railings, ATM machine keys, etc. are infected with the virus.

Cleaning staircase railings is one of those jobs that are often overlooked in so many of our homes.

a type of fence made of one of more usually metal or wooden bars attached to posts, often along the edge of a path or at the side of stairs for safety and to provide support:

The iron railing at the edge of the boardwalk was some six feet above the beach.