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brailed, 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 n.1]
1496Bk. St. Albans, Fysshynge 26 In May the grene worme: a lytyll breyled worme. a1653G. Daniel Idyll on G. Herbert 5 My long-brail'd Pineons..I cannot spread.
c. Hauled (up, etc.) by means of brails. So ˈbrailing vbl. n. (also of a tent and fig.).
1856G. Cupples Green Hand xiv. 138 The brailed foresail. 1902C. J. Cornish Naturalist Thames 8 A furling and brailing-up of the rain-clouds. 1910F. H. Lawrence Let. 19 Aug. in Home Lett. T. E. Lawrence (1954) 600 They had left a piece of the tarpaulin outside the brailing of the tent. 1921Spectator 7 May 589/1 The brailing up of the loose-footed sail. 1924Weekly Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 568/3 The brailed brown mainsail of a barge. 1939War Illustr. 16 Dec. 440/2 A bell-tent with sandbagged brailing. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo v. 96, I looked out under the brailing of the tent. |