'Brail' definitions:
Definition of 'brail'
(from WordNet)
noun
A small net used to draw fish into a boat
noun
A small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in
verb
Take in a sail with a brail
verb
Haul fish aboard with brails
Definition of 'Brail'
From: GCIDE
- Brail \Brail\, v. t. (Naut.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Brail'
From: GCIDE
- Brail \Brail\, n. [OE. brayle furling rope, OF. braiol a band placed around the breeches, fr.F. braies, pl., breeches, fr. L. braca, bracae, breeches, a Gallic word; cf. Arm. bragez. Cf. Breeches.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. (Naut.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'brail'
From: GCIDE
- Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See Place.] (Zool.) (a) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. (b) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and {summer flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. [Written also plaise.] [1913 Webster]
- Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]