Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
foot rail ExamplesWord Origin noun Furniture.
- a stretcher connecting the legs of a piece of furniture, as a chair or table, upon which the feet may be rested.
Origin of foot rail First recorded in 1865–70 Examples from the Web for foot rail Historical Examples of foot rail
The boy flung himself on the bed with his back against the foot-rail.
Ridgwell Cullum
They were placed on a stove,—on a red-hot stove with a loafers’ foot-rail about it.
Lippincott’s Magazine, December, 1885
Various
Peter interlaced his fingers round one knee and settled himself comfortably against the foot-rail.
Ralph Henry Barbour
He was the man who flung himself upon the foot-rail of that plunging engine.
Anna Katharine Green
And then he hitched it to the foot-rail where I couldn’t help seeing it every time I looked that way.
Ruth Alberta Brown