What does "brail" mean?
Brail: pl. (Naut.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
Additional senses
- 2.A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
- 3.To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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