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Drail vs Brail - What's the difference?

drail | brail |

As nouns the difference between drail and brail

is that drail is (angling) a hook with a lead shank while brail is (nautical) a small rope used to truss up sails.

As verbs the difference between drail and brail

is that drail is (angling|obsolete) to trail; to draggle while brail is to reef, shorten or strike sail using brails.

drail

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (angling) A hook with a lead shank.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (angling, obsolete) To trail; to draggle.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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

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