Also 7 braile, brale. [f. BRAIL sb.1] trans.

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  1.  To haul up (the sails) by means of the brails.

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1625.  Sir R. Granville, in G. Granville’s Wks. (1732), 293. My Lord Essex did Brail up his Foresail.

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1762.  Falconer, Shipwr., II. 26. ‘Brail up the mizen quick!’ the Master cries.

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1834.  M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1863), 95. The frigate hauled down the jib and brailed up the spanker.

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  2.  To confine (a hawk’s wings) with a brail.

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1643.  Parables on Times, 9. Not content to braile and clip their wings onely.

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1828.  Sebright, Hawking, 13. He should be carried on the fist … with his wing brailed.

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