The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engrail \En*grail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engrailing.] [F. engr[^e]ler; pref. en- (L. in) + gr[^e]le hail. See Grail gravel.]
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To variegate or spot, as with hail.
A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues.
--Chapman. (Her.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.
Engrail \En*grail"\, v. i.
To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented
lines.
--Parnell.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines. Etymology 2
vb. 1 To variegate or spot, as with hail. 2 (context heraldry archaic English) To indent with small curves.
Usage examples of "engrail".
Azure, a fesso engrailed or, between three fleurs-de-lys of the same, two of them being near the top and the third in the point.
And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.
Elliott was appropriately dressed in white slacks and a light-blue polo shirt, the latter bearing the club crest-a quartered shield with palm tree rampant, engrailed crossed tennis racquets, golf clubs and a yacht, all on waves of the sea.
And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.