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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Brail

· IPA /bɹeɪl/
01 n. A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
  1. 1.
    A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.(Falconry)
  2. 2.
    Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.(Naut.)
  3. 3.
    A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
02 v. t. To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
  1. 1.
    To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.(Naut.)