Meaning of brank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.
   plural-normally
2. Buckwheat.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable
3. A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete, plural-normally

Examples

“Your armour gude ye mauna shaw, / Nor yet appear like men o' weir; / As country lads be a' array'd, / Wi' branks and brecham on each mare.”

“One - third of brank-ground , or mixed with any other kind of grain or roots, is as large a proportion as can be given with safety”

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