Word Meaning

Meaning of brail

- A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
- Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
- A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
- To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.