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Brail   Listen
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Brail  v. t.  (Naut.) To haul up by the brails; used with up; as, to brail up a sail.






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"Brail" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Jarrow. "I'll git into some fresh duds, and you brail yerself up to look smart, and we'll drift over in a carromata. Will you ...
— Isle o' Dreams • Frederick F. Moore

... glistening bamboos, which they drive into the bottom and make fast at stem and stern. It is pleasant to watch the play of muscle, and attitudes, and the flicker of the reflected blue sky on their brown perspiring backs as they swarm up the sloping yards and cotton sails to brail up. No need for anatomy here, or at home for that matter; if an artist can't remember the reflected blue on warm damp flesh, he does not better matters by telling us what he has learned of the ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch



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