Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Drail
A drail is the combo of fish hook and line which is weighted with lead and dragged through the depths - presumably with the hope of catching the unsuspecting big one. Your meanings were superb and the winner on the day was The Encourager. Great work, TE.
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12 invented meanings:
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Drail (v). To drail is a) to lag behind or b) to be dragged about. The first usage is mainly used of a small child which refuses to keep up with its parent as he or she rushes from shop to shop. The second can be applied in similar circumstances - "I was drailed around by my Mum all morning."
Drail is a word often used in Britain. It describes the weather when the day is cold, grey, drizzling, not raining properly but not stopping properly either. The Scots use the word "dreech" (with the ch pronounced as in loch), so drail is predominantly used in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Drail is to whine and waste time and spin around getting nothing done because of getting oneself distracted by annoying trivia.
Drail is slang for derail or derailed. As in, "That there train was drailed but good."
The word drail is the desciptive word for those days when time seems to be slow; everything is gloomy-ish and you just want to take a nap. As in, "Yesterday was such a drail day. I couldn't keep up with anything."
At last you're back! 'Thought you'd left us all for good. Now, where was I? Oh, drail....
When a little toddler has a bunged up dose,
There appears that slimey dangly thing
Which grows and grows and grows,
It may be green and shiney
Like a snail's trail
But when the end sticks to his clothes
Then it is called a drail!
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A contraction of the phrase 'drinking pail', this is the proper name for the several-pint beer glasses that some pubs provide in the name of extended quaffing.
(PS. Even though I have provided my own meaning I will probably have to vote for Thinks! anyway. There's a cat with a hell of an imagination)
It's the process used to make pictures so that blind people can see them. Books are printed in "brail", drawings are drawn in "drail."
Drail happens in the winter, when you have to be bundled up in multiple layers (shirt, sweater, winter coat, scarf, mittens, hat) while outside, but need to shed all those layers while inside. It is practically impossible to keep hold of all these essential pieces of clothing, causing you to drail them all behind you as you walk.
Drail is the primary cause of orphan mitten syndrome, which knitters like myself combat by the simple expedient of always knitting children three mittens rather than two. (While drail is more prevalent among children, it does affect adults as well.)
Drails are the dirty and damaged hems of the long dresses and petticoats worn by ladies of past generations. Overworked chamber maids spent many miserable hours scrubbing and repairing drailed gowns.
A drail is an instrument, with a high pitched whistle, that attracts bats out of the belfry of an old village church.
As Brail is a reading system for the blind, Drail is a system of enhanced bass sounds for the deaf, enabling them to hear, or rather feel, beats and rhythms.
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