(n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
(n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
(n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
(v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
Example Sentences:
(1) In brail edema induced in dogs by focal freezing, tissue underlying the necrotic lesion had an elevated water content but the remainder of the brain was unaltered.
Brait
Definition:
(n.) A rough diamond.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wiese’s Brait investment vehicle upped its stake in Iceland to 57% from about 20% in October last year.
(2) Additional reporting by Ben Jacobs in Washington and Ellen Brait in New York.
(3) The Home Retail board will also have to consider if they think, because of the synergies Sainsbury’s can offer, if Argos will be more secure there.” The bid for Home Retail marks the latest move into the UK by Wiese, the South African entrepreneur who already owns fashion chain New Look and a majority stake in grocery chain Iceland in the UK via his Brait investment vehicle.
(4) The bid for Home Retail marks the latest move into the UK by Christo Wiese, the South African entrepreneur who owns a 17% stake in Steinhoff and already controls New Look and grocery chain Iceland in the UK via his Brait investment vehicle.