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S vs Brail - What's the difference?

s | brail |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun brail is

(nautical) a small rope used to truss up sails.

As a verb brail is

to reef, shorten or strike sail using brails.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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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