BRAIL

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

2.
n.

Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

3.
n.

A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

4.
v.

To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.


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