half-brailed

Updated: May 24, 2025

I now jumped to the jib-halyards and down-haul, getting that sail reduced; then I half-brailed the spanker; this was done lest my hold on the yard should give way. I can say, that up to this instant, I had not even looked for Marble. So intense had been my apprehensions of missing the wreck, that I thought of nothing else, could see nothing else.

James Fenimore Cooper - Miles Wallingford: Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"