drail

English

Etymology

From Middle English drail (“to drag along”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɹeɪl/
Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

drail (plural drails)

(fishing) A hook with a lead shank.

Verb

drail (third-person singular simple present drails, present participle drailing, simple past and past participle drailed)

(fishing, obsolete) To trail; to draggle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for drail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

LIDAR, Laird, laird, larid, liard, lidar, ralid

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