(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.