Brail vs Broil - What's the difference?
brail | broil |
(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
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
To expose to great heat.
To be exposed to great heat.
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
* Burke
* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
As nouns the difference between brail and broil
is that brail is (nautical) a small rope used to truss up sails while broil is food prepared by broiling or broil can be (archaic) a brawl; a rowdy disturbance.As verbs the difference between brail and broil
is that brail is to reef, shorten or strike sail using brails while broil is to cook by direct, radiant heat or broil can be to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.brail
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(en noun)Verb
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* *broil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.