brank.
A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.
Meaning & usage
A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.
A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
Where this word comes from
Compare Scottish Gaelic brangus, brangas (“a sort of pillory”), Irish brancas (“halter”), or Dutch pranger (“fetter”).
To put someone in the branks.
To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.
To prance; to caper.
Where this word comes from
Compare Scottish Gaelic brangus, brangas (“a sort of pillory”), Irish brancas (“halter”), or Dutch pranger (“fetter”).
Buckwheat.
Where this word comes from
Probably of Celtic origin; compare Latin brance, brace, the Gallic name of a particularly white kind of corn.
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