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TK bangin us over the head with switch rail hammers
That's a flat bar
Aren’t all flat bars rails? This is so pedantic but I’m here for it.
If we take “rail” as nothing more than a contraction of “handrail” and to only apply to handrails that slope down -usually stairs or some form of gradient then you’d be right in your argument.
But we can’t forget the OG definition of the word rail - and from Miriam Webster, Collins and Cambridge dictionaries all seem to agree on it being a noun referring to a horizontal bar in fixed position.
So here we can appropriately say that Tk is, indeed, banging us over the head with switch rail hammers.
I’m going to have to agree that flat bars are rails and handrails are a subset of rails if we take it that a rail is a "horizontal bar passing from one post or support to another," c. 1300, from Old French reille "bolt, bar," from Vulgar Latin *regla, from Latin regula "rule, straight piece of wood," diminutive form related to regere "to straighten, guide" (from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line"). Used figuratively for thinness from 1872. To be off the rails in a figurative sense is from 1848, an image from the railroads. In U.S. use, "A piece of timber, cleft, hewed, or sawed, inserted in upright posts for fencing" [Webster, 1830].