Brail vs Brait - What's the difference?
brail | brait |
(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