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Definition of: brail
(brāl) noun
1. Naut. One of the ropes for gathering up the foot and leeches of a fore-and-aft sail for furling.
2. A leather fastening for a hawk's wing.
—v.t.
1. Naut. To haul in (a sail) by means of brails: usually with up.
2. To fasten with a brail, as a hawk's wing. [<OF braiel <L bracale a belt for breeches <bracae breeches]
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