engrail

      English

      Etymology

      en- +‎ grail?

      Verb

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

      1. To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
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      Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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      Last modified on 29 November 2012, at 03:14