brail

brail has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
• n.. Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
• n.. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
• v. t.. To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
• n.. a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in
• n.. a small net used to draw fish into a boat
• v.. haul fish aboard with brails
• v.. take in a sail with a brail