brank
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Is brank a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (usually in the plural) A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.plural-normally
2. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect, usually in the plural) A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.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."ScotlandUKdialectalobsoleteplural-normally
verb (English)
1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.ScotlandUKdialectal
2. (Scotland) To prance; to caper.Examples: "Donald came branking down the brae Wi' twenty thousand men."Scotland
noun (English)
1. (UK, dialect) Buckwheat.Examples: "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"UKdialectaluncountable
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