Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎣 A fishing net 🎣 To haul fish ⛵ A sail rope ⛵ To gather sail
to brail

to brail

9.9
To pull fish into a boat using a small net
  • verb
  • /breɪl/
  • Archaic
translation icon : recoger la pesca
  • Large fish pumps, standard equipment on most carrier vessels since the mid-1950s, rapidly transfer fish to the hold and replace the laborious method of brailing the catch.

Examples

  • After a successful day at sea, they began to brail the catch into the hold.

  • To secure the fish for transport, the crew had to brail them carefully into the boat.

  • The fisherman used a net to brail the fish aboard the boat quickly.

Synonyms

to bouse
vsto brail
  • Archaic
9.9

To pull heavy things using a rope and pulley

pulls only fish aboard using nets or ropes

Surface Forms

brail infinitive
brailed past
brailed past participle
brailing present participle
brails third person singular

Etymology

Brail comes from an old French word braiel meaning 'little belt', so to brail fish is to pull the net tight like a belt and haul the catch aboard. That's why the verb brail means to haul fish onto the boat using nets or ropes.