drail (plural drails)
(angling) A hook with a lead shank.
(angling) The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook.
The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw.
drail (third-person singular simple present drails, present participle drailing, simple past and past participle drailed)
(angling, obsolete) To trail; to draggle.
• LIDAR, Laird, laird, larid, liard, lidar
Source: Wiktionary
Drail, v. t. & i. [
Definition: To trail; to draggle. [Obs.] South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
