different between drail vs brail

English

Etymology

From Middle English *drailen (attested as drailed), a variant of Middle English trailen (“to hang loosely, drag along, drag away”), from a merger of Old French trailer, traillier (“to trail”) and Old English tr??lian, tr??elian (“to pluck, pull away”). The alteration of trailen to drailen was probably due to influence from Middle English dragan, drawen (“to drag, draw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

drail (plural drails)

1. (fishing) A hook with a lead shank.
2. (fishing) The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook.
3. The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw.

Verb

drail (third-person singular simple present drails, present participle drailing, simple past and past participle drailed)

1. (fishing, obsolete) To trail; to draggle.

Anagrams

• LIDAR, Laird, laird, larid, liard, lidar

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