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noun a small net used to draw fish into a boat
noun a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in
verb take in a sail with a brail
originFrom Middle English brayle, from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin bracale (“girdle”) (from bracae (“breeches”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0