different between brail vs broil

English

Etymology

From Middle English brayle, from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin bracale (“girdle”) (from bracae (“breeches”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

brail (plural brails)

1. (nautical) A small rope used to truss up sails.
2. (falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
3. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
4. (theater) A rope or line used to suspend lights or scenery in a certain position.
5. (in the plural) The feathers around a hawk's rump.

Verb

brail (third-person singular simple present brails, present participle brailing, simple past and past participle brailed)

1. To reef, shorten or strike sail using brails.

References

• brail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

Anagrams

• Arbil, Baril, Blair, Bliar, Libra, Rabil, libra

Middle English

Noun

brail

1. Alternative form of brayle

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English barail.

Noun

brail (plural brailès)

1. barrel

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:

• bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *br?jan (“to burn, scald”)
• usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustul? (“to scorch”)

Verb

broil (third-person singular simple present broils, present participle broiling, simple past and past participle broiled)

1. (transitive, Canada, US) To cook by direct, radiant heat.

   Synonym: (British) grill

2. (transitive, Canada, US) To expose to great heat.
3. (intransitive, Canada, US) To be exposed to great heat.

Translations

Noun

broil (plural broils)

1. Food prepared by broiling.

Etymology 2

Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodicul?re (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþ? (“broth”). Doublet of broth.

Verb

broil (third-person singular simple present broils, present participle broiling, simple past and past participle broiled)

1. (transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To brawl.

Noun

broil (plural broils)

1. (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, verses 1-2

     So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 27

     "Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone."

   • 1840, Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)

     Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.

   • 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society

     I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Synonyms

• skirmish

Translations

Anagrams

• LIBOR, libro-