Definition of brailing Brailing
We found 3 definitions of brailing from 2 different sources.
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What does brailing mean?
Wiktionary 
- brailing (Verb)
Present participle of brail.
Part of speech
🔤- brailing, verb, gerund of brail (infinitive).
WordNet
NounPlural: brails |
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| brail - a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in | ||
| brail - a small net used to draw fish into a boat | ||
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| brail - haul fish aboard with brails | ||
| fish catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends" | ||
| brail - take in a sail with a brail | ||
| furl, roll up form a cylinder by rolling; "roll up a banner" | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- brail (n.)
A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. - brail (n.)
Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. - brail (n.)
A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. - brail (v. t.)
To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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brail
brāl, n. a piece of leather to bind up a hawk's wing: (pl.) the feathers about a hawk's rump: (naut.) one of the ropes used to truss up a sail.—v.t. to haul in, as a sail, by pulling upon the brails. [O. Fr. brail—L. bracale, a waist-belt for holding up the breeches—bracæ.]
Part of speech
🔤- brail, verb, present, 1st person singular of brail (infinitive).
- brail, verb (infinitive).
