engrail

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
11
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɪŋˈɡɹeɪl/

Definition of engrail

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To make rough.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To make rough.
  2. (intransitive)To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
    “Fine gold engrail'd adorns the figur'd floor”
  3. (transitive)To variegate or spot, as with hail.
    “a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues”
  4. (archaic, transitive)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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Etymology

From en- + grail.

Words you can make from engrail

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7-letter words

3 words

6-letter words

16 words

5-letter words

36 words

4-letter words

57 words

3-letter words

41 words

2-letter words

16 words

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