ride on a rail | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,historical)To be subjected to a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The victim was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside.1884December 10,Mark Twain[pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, inThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)[…], London:Chatto & Windus,[…],→OCLC:...they'd be along pretty soon and give me 'bout half an hour's start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me they'd tar and feather me andridemeon a rail, sure. I didn't wait for no breakfast--I warn't hungry.

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