engrail

/ɪŋˈɡɹeɪl/
verb 4

Definitions

verb

1

To make rough.

2

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

Fine gold engrail'd adorns the figur'd floor

verb

1

To variegate or spot, as with hail.

a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues

2

To indent with small curves.

He crossed through the high grass and went up the slope, climbing with handholds in the new turf until he gained the crest and turned to look down on the river and the city beyond, casting a gray glance along that varied world, the pieced plowland, the houses, the odd grady of the small metropolis against the green and blooming hills and the flat bow of the river like a serpentine trench poured with dull slag save where the wind engrailed its face and it shimmered lightly in the sun.

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