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Brazil vs Brail - What's the difference?

brazil | brail |

As nouns the difference between brazil and brail

is that brazil is a brazil nut while brail is (nautical) a small rope used to truss up sails.

As a verb brail is

to reef, shorten or strike sail using brails.

brazil

English

(wikipedia Brazil)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Capital: Brasilia. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil) .

    • Derived terms

    * Brazilian * Brazil nut

    See also

    * ----

    brail

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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

    • References

    * * (1728)

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