engrail

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈɡɹeɪl/

From en- +‎ grail. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

engrail (third-person singular simple present engrails, present participle engrailing, simple past and past participle engrailed)

1. (transitive) To make rough.
2. (intransitive) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
   • a. 1718, Thomas Parnell, Solomon:

     Fine gold engrail'd adorns the figur'd floor

French engrêler

engrail (third-person singular simple present engrails, present participle engrailing, simple past and past participle engrailed)

1. (transitive) To variegate or spot, as with hail.
   • , Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, , new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., , 1843, →OCLC:

     a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues

     The spelling has been modernized.

2. (transitive, heraldry, archaic) To indent with small curves.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 120:

     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.

• Relangi, aligner, inlarge, learing, nargile, realign, reginal