What's the difference between brail and drail?

Brail


Definition:

  • (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.

Drail


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To trail; to draggle.

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