What is "brailed"

Usage examples of "brailed".

There, indeed, was the lugger, under her foresail and mainsail, with the jigger brailed, coming down wing-and-wing, and glancing along the glittering sea like the duck sailing toward her nest.

Half an hour later he directed the foresail to be brailed, brought his jigger-sheet in flat, put his helm hard down, and hauled the jib-sheet to windward.

I hauled my wind, hove-to, brailed up my sails, and changed the colours, firing a gun in bravado.

I remained during the whole forenoon, with my sails brailed up, that they might have a clear view of the hanging figure.

He lashed the wheel and working in the dark brailed up the sail, suffering several sharp blows from the flailing sheets.

It was a large tent, as big as a parish marquee, and though both its wide entrances had been brailed back there was no wind to stir the damp air trapped under the high ridge.

God, dual steering oars and a square, brailed sail, he noted, shaking his head doubtfully.

Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship.

Had the wind been lighter both sails would probably have been left up and brailed, but even with her muffled main still up the mast, the smuggler was starting to sheer quite wildly in the swell.

She had ten oarports on either side of her hull, as well as a single broad, square-rigged sail, brailed up now that she was in harbor.

He lashed the wheel and working in the dark brailed up the sail, suffering several sharp blows from the flailing sheets.

God, dual steering oars and a square, brailed sail, he noted, shaking his head doubtfully.

Had the wind been lighter both sails would probably have been left up and brailed, but even with her muffled main still up the mast, the smuggler was starting to sheer quite wildly in the swell.