Definition of vail Vail
/vejˈl/ - [veyl] - vail
We found 13 definitions of vail from 3 different sources.
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What does vail mean?
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- vail (n. & v. t.)
Same as Veil. - vail (n.)
Avails; profit; return; proceeds. - vail (n.)
An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall. - vail (n.)
Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural. - vail (v. t.)
To let fail; to allow or cause to sink. - vail (v. t.)
To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like. - vail (v. i.)
To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like. - vail (n.)
Submission; decline; descent.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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vail
An old word signifying to lower, to bend in token of submission; as, "Vail their top-gallants." Thus in the old play George a-Green, "Let me alone, my lord; I'll make them vail their plumes."
