brail

brail is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
2. noun. Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
3. noun. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
4. transitive verb. To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
5. noun. a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in
6. noun. a small net used to draw fish into a boat
7. verb. haul fish aboard with brails
8. verb. take in a sail with a brail

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in brail:

blair, libra

Common word forms

brails, brailed, brailing

Words from these letters

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