Word Meaning

brail definition and meaning

n. A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
n. Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
n. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
v. t. To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.