brails
명사 (Noun)
(nautical) A small rope used to truss up sails.
brail lines 조승(釣繩)줄
brail lines of cast net 투망의 조승(釣繩)줄
(falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
늘임을 유지하기 위해 쎄인의 양쪽 끝에 있는 스톡
truss
verb [ T ]
UK
(also truss up)
to tie the arms and legs of someone together tightly and roughly with rope to prevent them from moving or escaping:
Police said the couple had been trussed up and robbed before being shot.
to prepare a bird for cooking by tying its wings and legs to its body
brail lines(조승줄) of cast net
동사 (Verb)
To reef, shorten or strike sail using brails.
1993: The winds blew at their own caprice and there was brailing and loosing of canvas. — Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
brail
noun
1: a rope fastened to the leech of a sail and used for hauling the sail up or in
2: a dip net with which fish are hauled aboard a boat from a purse seine or trap
brail
verb
brailed; brailing; brails
transitive verb
1: to take in (a sail) by the brails
2: to hoist (fish) by means of a brail
brail
in British English
NOUN
1.
one of several lines fastened to the leech of a fore-and-aft sail to aid in furling it
VERB
2. (transitive; sometimes foll by up)
to furl (a fore-and-aft sail) using brails
brail
in American English
NOUN
1.
any of the small ropes attached to the leech of a sail for hauling it in
VERB TRANSITIVE
2.
to haul (in) with brail
NOUN
1.
one of several lines fastened to the leech of a fore-and-aft sail to aid in furling it
VERB
2. (transitive; sometimes foll by up)
to furl (a fore-and-aft sail) using brails
Word origin
C15: from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin brācāle belt for breeches, from Latin brāca breeches
brail (n.)
15세기 중반 선박에서 사용하는 작은 로프는 공작사냥에서 가죽끈으로 사용되던 옛 프랑스어 brail 에서 유래되었으며, 라틴어 bracale "허리띠"에서 파생되었습니다. 이는 breeches 에서 볼 수 있듯, "바지"의 복수형인 bracæ 에서 유래된 것입니다.
최초 기록 년도: mid-15c.
NOUN
1.
any of the small ropes attached to the leech of a sail for hauling it in
VERB TRANSITIVE
2.
to haul (in) with brails