Engrail vs Engrain - What's the difference?
engrail | engrain |
To variegate or spot, as with hail.
* Chapman
(heraldry, archaic) To indent with small curves.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.120:
As verbs the difference between engrail and engrain
is that engrail is to form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines or engrail can be to variegate or spot, as with hail while engrain is .engrail
English
Etymology 1
?Etymology 2
(etyl)Verb
(en verb)- a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues
- He crossed through the high grass and went up the slope, climbing with handholds in the new turf until he gained the crest and turned to look down on the river and the city beyond, casting a gray glance along that varied world, the pieced plowland, the houses, the odd grady of the small metropolis against the green and blooming hills and the flat bow of the river like a serpentine trench poured with dull slag save where the wind engrailed its face and it shimmered lightly in the sun.