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entrail

/ˈɛn.tɹeɪl/

entrail verb: to interweave or bind. Also the singular of entrails.

Verb

entrail (third-person singular simple present entrails, present participle entrailing, simple past and past participle entrailed)

  1. (archaic) To interweave or bind.
    • And in the thickest covert of that shade / There was a pleasant arbour, not by art / But of the trees' own inclination made, / With wanton ivy twine entrailed athwart, / And eglantine and caprifole among, / Fashioned above within their inmost part / That neither Phoebus' beams could through them...1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III Canto VI
    • Trust not any with thy life, credit, or estate: for it is mere folly for a man to entrail himself to his friend; as though, occasion being offered, he shall not dare to become his enemy.1598, William Cecil, letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion, 1824, by John Strype, page 479
  2. To outline in black.
    • A cross entrailed.
    • "Entrailed: outlined, always with black lines. See Adumbration, and Cross entrailed."1847, Henry Gough, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table ..., Oxford, page 124

Noun

entrail (plural entrails)

  1. (archaic) Entanglement; fold.
    • "About her cursed head, whose folds displaid / Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile."1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, page 1.1.18

Also used as

entrail is also the singular of entrails.

entrail meaning in Telugu, Sanskrit and Persian

entrail in Telugu

an internal organ of an animal
పేగు pēgu

entrail in Sanskrit

an internal organ of an animal
अन्त्र antra, गुद guda

entrail in Persian

an internal organ of an animal
اندرونه andarune

Examples of entrail in a sentence

  • Himself hid by entrailing foliage, / Betwixt whose leafy meshes he could see / That false pair's dalliance and badinage.1885, John Barlas, The Bloody Heart:
  • "Entrailed, a Cross, P.7, n.20, Lee says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable."1775, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules ..., H. Washbourne, page 122:

Synonyms of entrail

Forms of entrail

Verb
third-person singular presententrails
present participleentrailing
past participleentrailed
pastentrailed
Noun
pluralentrails

Origin of entrail

From en- + trail.

From Middle English entraille, from Old French entraille (compare modern French entrailles), from Late Latin intrālia, modification of Latin intrānea, contraction of interāneum (“gut, intestine”), substantive of interāneus (“internal, inward”).

Words formed from entrail

Questions about entrail

What does entrail mean?
Entrail means to interweave or bind.
What is entrail in Telugu?
Entrail in Telugu is పేగు (pēgu). See Entrail meaning in Telugu.
How do you use entrail in a sentence?
Himself hid by entrailing foliage, / Betwixt whose leafy meshes he could see / That false pair's dalliance and badinage.
What part of speech is entrail?
Entrail can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce entrail?
Entrail is pronounced /ˈɛn.tɹeɪl/.
What is the past tense of entrail?
The past tense of entrail is entrailed.

Words near entrail in the dictionary

  1. entrable
  2. entracte
  3. entractes
  4. entrada
  5. entradas
  6. entrail
  7. entrailed
  8. entrailing
  9. entrails
  10. entrain
  11. entrainability

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