ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
a. Confined by a brail (said of a hawk’s wings). b. Brailed worm: perh. a ringed worm [? from extended sense of OF. braiel girdle; see BRAIL sb.1]
1496. Bk. St. Albans, Fysshynge, 26. In May the grene worme: a lytyll breyled worme.
a. 1653. G. Daniel, Idyll on G. Herbert, 5. My long-brail’d Pineons … I cannot spread.
