BRAILED
- BRAIL, to haul in a sail [v]
- any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail
- leather binding for a hawk's wings, to prohibit flight
- a. to gather or haul in (a sail) by means of brails (usually fol. by up) b. to transfer (fish) from a net to the hold of a ship
- to bind (the wings of a bird) in order to prevent it from flying