Definitions for brails

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brails brail

Spelling: [breyl]

IPA: /breɪl/

Brails is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in brails (abilrs).

Definitions for brails

noun

1. Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
2. a leather binding for a hawk's wings, to prohibit flight.

verb (used with object)

1. Nautical. to gather or haul in (a sail) by means of brails (usually followed by up). to transfer (fish) from a net to the hold of a ship.
2. to bind (the wings of a bird) in order to prevent it from flying.

Origin of brails

1400-50; late Middle English, variant of brayell Anglo-French braiel; Old French Medieval Latin brācāle breechbelt, noun use of neuter of brācālis, equivalent to Latin brāc(ae) trousers (Gaul

Examples for brails

Then the brail of the mainsail was loosed, and the great sail shaken out.

Yet I suspect that for brail we should read berail, and for hud us, hood us.

Miss brail did not have the heart to answer the question truthfully.

Come now, brail, no quizzing, if you please; I am deuced weak yet.

Man the braces fore and aft; square away the yards and brail in the mizen.

He had taken his mother to brail once, and she had been much pleased with the village.

Madam, has Mr brail had the audacity to ask your daughter in marriage?

Halloo—and is it off they are, without so much as a bow, or—brail, what is the meaning of all this?

Well, has not Mr brail told you you might stay if you choose?

I exclaimed; “and stand by to brail up the mizzen if she fails to pay off.”