hitching rail

noun

A horizontal rail with vertical supports to which a horse can be hitched, or tied up to.

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Meanings

nounhitching rail (plural hitching rails)

plural hitching rails

  1. A horizontal rail with vertical supports to which a horse can be hitched, or tied up to.

    It was a gala occasion. There was no room at the public hitching rail for another animal, mules and wagons were parked under every available tree.

    1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
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