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brail

  [breyl]
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–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)
3. Nautical.
a. to gather or haul in (a sail) by means of brails (usually fol. by up).
b. to transfer (fish) from a net to the hold of a ship.
4. to bind (the wings of a bird) in order to prevent it from flying.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME, var. of brayell < AF braiel; OF < ML brācāle breechbelt, n. use of neut. of brācālis, equiv. to L brāc(ae) trousers (< Gaulish) + -ālis -al 1
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