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单词 brailed
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brailedadj.

Etymology: < brail v. + -ed suffix1.
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a. Confined by a brail (said of a hawk's wings).
b. brailed worm n. perhaps a ringed worm [? < extended sense of Old French braiel girdle; see brail n.1]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > member of
worma1100
brailed worm1496
marrow-pudding1756
annelid1813
annelidan1835
setiger1842
1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. hvi v In May the grene worme: a lytyll breyled worme.
a1653 G. Daniel Idyll on G. Herbert 5 My long-brail'd Pineons..I cannot spread.
c. Hauled (up, etc.) by means of brails.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > brailed
brailed1849
1849 G. Cupples Green Hand vi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 735/2 The brailed foresail.
1924 Weekly Westm. 13 Sept. 568/3 The brailed brown mainsail of a barge.

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ˈbrailing n. (also of a tent and figurative).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > [noun] > pitching of tent
pitchinga1398
brailing1840
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [noun] > hauling in by brails
brailing1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast 226 These trades..blowing steadily on our starboard quarter..without our starting a brace, or even brailing down the skysails.
1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 8 A furling and brailing-up of the rain-clouds.
1910 F. H. Lawrence Let. 19 Aug. in T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 600 They had left a piece of the tarpaulin outside the brailing of the tent.
1921 Spectator 7 May 589/1 The brailing up of the loose-footed sail.
1939 War Illustr. 16 Dec. 440/2 A bell-tent with sandbagged brailing.
1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo v. 96 I looked out under the brailing of the tent.
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