brawn
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Is brawn a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly British) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.Examples: "Now if your Majesty would have our bristles To bind your mortar with, or fill our colons With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles, In policy—ask else your royal Solons— You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw, And sties well thatched; besides it is the law!"; "It was brawn and shape for high tea."Britishcountableuncountable
2. (UK, dialectal) A boar.Examples: "And loud as brawns wer [they] snoring,"; "THE village of Brancepath, pleasantly situated at the distance of four miles and three- quarters south-west by west of Durham, is said to have derived its name (a corruption of Brawn's-path) from a brawn of vast size, [...]"UKcountabledialectaluncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) Make fat, especially of a boar.transitive
2. (intransitive) Become fat, especially of a boar.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary