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Meaning of engrail | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
/ɪŋˈɡɹeɪl/

Definitions

  1. To make rough.
    transitive
  2. To variegate or spot, as with hail.
    transitive
  3. To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
    intransitive
  4. To indent with small curves.
    archaic, transitive

Examples

“Fine gold engrail'd adorns the figur'd floor”
“a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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