Braided vs Brailed - What's the difference?
braided | brailed |
(braid)
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(nautical) A small rope used to truss up sails.
(falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
To reef, shorten or strike sail using brails.
:* 1993': The winds blew at their own caprice and there was '''brailing and loosing of canvas. — Anthony Burgess, ''A Dead Man in Deptford
As verbs the difference between braided and brailed
is that braided is (braid) while brailed is (brail).braided
English
Verb
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
