Crossword-Solution: BRAIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Brail | n. | A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. |
| Brail | n. | Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. |
| Brail | n. | A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. |
| Brail | v. t. | To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BRAIL | anagram | ABRIL, ARBIL, BLAIR, LABRI, LIBRA |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BRAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dip net | 1 answer |
| Rope used to haul in a sail | 1 answer |
| Small fishing net | 1 answer |
| Small net | 1 answer |
| a small net used to draw fish into a boat | 1 answer |
| one of several lines fastened to a fore-and-aft sail to aid in furling it | 1 answer |
| A SMALL ROPE USED TO DRAW A SAIL IN | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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greedy person
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Sentences with BRAIL (5)
Robarts with delight saw them come tumbling up, and gave his orders lustily: “Brail up the trysel! up with the helm! in with the weather main brace! square the after yards!” The ship's bow turned from the wind, and, as soon as she got way on her, Robarts ran below again, and entered the cabin triumphant.
Why did it darken? The demurest of fuliginous intriguers argued that Brail stone was but doing the spiriting required of him, and would have to pay the penalty unrewarded, let him Italianize as much as he pleased.
Tell him, too, to brail the foresail, while we are in stays--that's right; another call will start him up.” The other call was given, aided by a gentle shake from Rose's hand.
Jack's plan was to pass the brig to windward, and having got well on her bow, to brail the sail, and drift down upon her, expecting to fall in alongside, abreast of the fore-chains, into which he had intended to help Biddy, and to ascend himself, when he supposed that Mulford would again make sail, and carry off his mistress.
Yet how are we to get there? There does not appear to be a breath of wind." "Oh, that's easily managed; we have only to brail and furl up a little, to hide our cloth from the Ingians, and then send the boats a-head to tow the craft, while some of us lend a hand at her own sweeps.
Quotes with BRAIL (1)
Once there was a boy,” said Jace. Clary interrupted immediately. “A Shadowhunter boy?”“Of course.” For a moment a bleak amusement colored his voice. Then it was gone. “When the boy was six years old, his father gave him a falcon to train. Falcons are raptors — killing birds, his father told him, the Shadowhunters of the sky.“The falcon didn’t like the boy, and the boy didn’t like it, either. Its sharp beak made him nervous, and its bright eyes always seemed to be watching him…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1977–2014).