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Top Rail - The rail located at the top of a door or window.
Top-Rail Arch - A top rail with a squared top edge and an inside radius bottom edge.

 


Top Rail - The upper rail of the top sash of a double hung window.
Traffic Plan - A plan of room and door placement designed for convenience of movement in normal everyday activities.
Transom - A small window just above a door.

ledger board - top rail of a fence or balustrade
guardrail, safety rail - a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety
taffrail - the railing around the stern of a ship ...

The horizontal cross pieces are the top rail, bottom rail, and middle or intermediate rails.

Balustrade -- An entire railing system with top rail and balusters.
Bargeboard -- A board which hangs from the projecting end of a gable roof covering the end rafters, and often sawn into a decorative pattern.

Chair or sofa back of late Chippendale or Hepplewhite style. The top rail is in the form of a serpentine curve with two humps downward and three humps upward.
Cameo
A small semi-precious stone or a shell carved in relief, used as ornament.

The carved decoration on the top rail of a chair, sofa, or daybed
A crest in the shape of a triangle on the top of a chair can be described as a pediment ...

balustrade A railing composed of balusters and a top rail running along the edge of a porch, balcony, roof, or stoop.
bay A regularly repeating division of a facade, marked by fenestration.

Ledger - A horizontal board forming the top rail of a simple fence, the hand-rail to a balustrade or the like; also any of the flooring boards of a scaffolding.

balustrade - an entire railing system including a top rail and its balusters, and often a bottom rail.

Balustrade - A railing system, generally around a balcony or on a second level, consisting of balusters and a top rail.
Banding - Different materials, colours or textures used in horizontal bands along a wall.

An entire railing system along the edge of a balcony or stairwell, including the top rail, bottom rail and balusters.
Bargeboard ...

A railing system, generally around a balcony or on a second level, consisting of balusters and a top rail.
Thunder Bay
Topkapi Palace - Istanbul - Turkey (1500) ...

Rail - A minor horizontal structural member (e.g. of a balustrade, fence, gate, door or window). It may be top rail, intermediate rail or bottom rail.
Railing - A balustrade.

See also: Door, Frame, Architecture, Rail, House