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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a brail reeving through a block at the jaws of a gaff for tricing the body of a fore-and-aft sail close up to the gaff as well as the mast. See cut under
brail .
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To help us, the head of the spencer got loose, from the throat-brail up, and, blowing out against the wreck, the whole formed, together, a body of hamper, that acted as a sort of sail, which helped the brig to keep clear of the seas.
Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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