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brail Tweet Definition of brail Like Definition of brail on Facebook
noun (usually in plural)
  1. (nautical) a small rope used to truss up sails
verb 
  1. to haul up a sail using the brails
  • 1993: The winds blew at their own caprice and there was brailing and loosing of canvas. " Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
Etymology: Old French braiel, from mediíval Latin bracale "girdle" (from bracae "breeches").

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