brae

1. (Northern England, Scotland) The sloping bank of a river valley.Examples: "Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?"; "Ye banks, and braes, and ſtreams around / The caſtle of Montgomery, / Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, / Your waters never drumlie!"; "Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn."Northern-EnglandScotland

2. (Northern England, Scotland) Any hillside or slope.Examples: "You are directed to the particular part of the brae where the Covenanters stationed themselves, (at the time of my visit it was a field of pasture, on which some cows were quietly feeding,) and the eminence behind, [...]"; "The party was in a big bungalow with an enormous brae for a garden."Northern-EnglandScotland