drail
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of drail
1625–35; special use of obsolete English, Middle English drail to drag along, apparently alteration of trail under influence of drag, draw, etc.
Example Sentences
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Use the Fish Flash with a downrigger for stripers, coupled with a drail for teasing pelagics, or to make a bubbling commotion on the surface.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he was as good as his threat: I saw the drail skipping on the top of the wave as my line came in empty.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
Over this hook, called by the fishermen hereabouts a "drail," an eel-skin was drawn, though I have known the blue-fish to bite well at a simple piece of canvas or leather.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
Yah—der drail to find your prudder und der drail for us to git pack py.
From The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice by Dick Richards
The first-named are caught by hook and line operated by means of poles rigged out from the boat much in the same way, apparently, as we drail for mackerel on the southwest coast.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various
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