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