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- verb Present participle of
brail .
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Examples
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Dolan paused his brailing the door panel long enough to cuff Nick in the side of the head.
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Tetler reached behind him without looking, brailing the table top for the tranquilizers he knew should be within easy reach.
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Dolan paused his brailing the door panel long enough to cuff Nick in the side of the head.
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One end of which was secured by a bight of the trysail brailing.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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Another heavy drop descended, I stretched out my arm and pushing my fist against the wet patch drew it down the canvas as far as the brailing.
Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924
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Thereupon the man tried to step in, but he tripped over the brailing underneath the flap, and plunged forward, spilling the greater part of his tea.
Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924
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These trades were the same that, in the passage out in the Pilgrim, lasted nearly all the way from Juan Fernandez to the line; blowing steadily on our starboard quarter for three weeks, without our starting a brace, or even brailing down the skysails.
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Down go the buckets and kettles and out run the wretched scarecrows of seamen to the weary business of tacking ship, letting go, brailing up, hauling in, and making fast for the thousandth time; and then back to the pumps and kettles again.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907
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Down go the buckets and kettles and out run the wretched scarecrows of seamen to the weary business of tacking ship, letting go, brailing up, hauling in, and making fast for the thousandth time; and then back to the pumps and kettles again.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 7 Filson Young 1907
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Down go the buckets and kettles and out run the wretched scarecrows of seamen to the weary business of tacking ship, letting go, brailing up, hauling in, and making fast for the thousandth time; and then back to the pumps and kettles again.
Christopher Columbus Young, Filson 1906
tbtabby commented on the word brailing
The act of feeling the tiles when you reach into the tile bag in order to get a tile you want. Against the rules in tournament play.
November 27, 2019