noun
- plural of drail; small anchors or grapnels used to drag the bottom of a body of water
Usage: nautical; technical
Examples
- The fishermen used drails to search the lake bottom for lost equipment.
- Several drails were deployed to recover the sunken anchor.
- The salvage crew’s drails helped locate debris on the seafloor.
- Maritime archaeologists employ drails to survey underwater sites.
- The boat’s drails caught on something heavy beneath the surface.