A grab rail is a short bar fixed to a wall beside a bath or toilet. Fit a grab rail.
It has to go into something solid, since a rail that pulls out is worse than none. A grab rail is the cheapest adaptation there is and prevents more falls than any other.
1noungrab railA short bar fixed to a wall beside a bath or toilet, which you take hold of to steady yourself.
“The grab rail was put in the week after the first fall.”
grab rail is a bar.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰrebʰ-
English
grabrail
English, today
grab rail
grabrail comes from grab + rail.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Disability & Access