rail
French → English
noun//ʁaj//
(transport) Rail: one of the two steel bars that form a train track
Les roues de la locomotive patinent sur le rail glissant.
(English) The locomotive wheels are slipping on the slippery rail.
Le train décrivait une courbe laborieuse en piaulant sur ses rails.
(English) The train described a laborious curve while squealing on its rails.
noun//ʁaj//
(drugs) Line: a thin strip of a powdered drug intended to be inhaled
Il préférait les rails de coke aux pintes de bière.
(English) He preferred lines of coke over pints of beer.
Tu ne connais pas cette fille, j'ai dû lui filer un rail.
(English) You don't know this girl; I had to give her a line.
Entry ID: fr:en:rail · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary