Braised vs Brailed - What's the difference?
braised | brailed |
(braise)
A method of joining non-ferrous metal using a molten filler metal. Similar to but distinct from welding in that the filler is melted but not the metal being joined.
(brazing)
(cooking) To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan. Somewhere between steaming and boiling.
(brail)
(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