BRAIL

noun a thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

2. brail ·noun a stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

3. brail ·vt to haul up by the brails;

— used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

4. brail ·noun ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.