- (n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
- (n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
- (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
- (v.t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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