 | William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - Shipwrecks - 1804 - 292 pages
...Main-sail, Fore-sail, and Mizen. As the word, Brails, is a general name given to all the Ropes which are employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners, and skirts of the great Sails ; so the drawing them together, for the more ready operation of furling, is called brailing them up.... | |
 | J. J. Moore - English language - 1805 - 300 pages
...up, as occasion requires. Several of the stay-sails also have brails. BRAILS is likewise a general name given to all the ropes employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners, and skirts ot the other great sails, for the more ready furling them, which operation is called broiling ufi,... | |
 | William Falconer - 1822 - 192 pages
...mainsail,foresail, and mizen. As the word brails is a general name given to all the ropes which are employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners, and skirts of the great sails ; so the drawing them together, for the more ready operation of furling, is called brailing them up.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 608 pages
...through pulleys on the mizzen-mast (qv), and afterwards fastened, in different places, on the binder edge of the sail, in order to draw it up to the mast,...general. The operation of drawing them together is called brailmg them up, or hauling them up to the brails. BRAIN. The brain is a soft substance, partly reddish-gray... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 608 pages
....(SeeBramo,JBramj'n.) BRAILOW. (See Brahilow.) BRAILS ; certain ropes passing through pulleys on the mizzen-inast (qv), and afterwards fastened, in different places, on the...all the ropes employed to haul up the bottoms, lower comers and skirts of the great sails in general. The operation of drawing them together is called broiling... | |
 | William Falconer - English poetry - 1836 - 306 pages
...main-sail, fore-sail, and mizen. As the word, brails, is a general name given to all the ropes which are employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners, and skirts of the great sails; so the drawing them together, for the more ready operation of furling, is called brailing them up.... | |
 | William Falconer - English poetry - 1836 - 160 pages
...mainsail, foresail, and miszen, As the word brails is a general name given to all the ropes which are employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners, and skirts of the great sails, so the drawing them together, for the more ready operation of furling, is called brailing them up.... | |
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Brails is likewise a name given to all the ropes employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners and skirts of the great sails in general. The operation of drawing them together is called brailmg them up, or hauling them up to the brails. 
