brail

brail
(brall, ll mouillées) s. m.
Piége pour la chasse aux oiseaux.
   XIIe s.
•   Que si sont pris come oiselet à broi, Gérard de Vienne, 3593.
   XIIIe s.
•   Si se tenront en nostre loi, Tant qu'il nos aient pris al broi, Parton. 9017.
   XVIe s.
•   On peut aussi prendre oiseaux par autres manieres, comme est au brail à une guvette, à quoi l'on prend les petits oiseaux, DU CANGE brenexellus..
   Il y a dans le provençal bretz, brec, bres, piége à oiseau ; ancien français, bret (il eut peur d'estre prins au bret, dans RAYNOUARD, Lexique) ; espagn. portug. et ital. brete. Brail, le bas-latin brenexellus, l'ancien français broi, dont brail n'est qu'une autre forme, le dérivé broion qui a le même sens, semblent être de même origine que bret ; mais cette origine est inconnue (<

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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