brank

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈbɹeɪ̯ŋk/|[ˈbɹʷeɪ̯ŋk]|/ˈbɹɛ̃ŋk/|[ˈbɹʷɛ̃ŋk]

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
    — 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
  3. A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. Scotland,UK,dialectal,obsolete,plural-normally
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To put someone in the branks.
  2. To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit. Scotland,UK,dialectal
  3. To prance; to caper. Scotland
    — Donald came branking down the brae Wi' twenty thousand men.

词形变化

branks plural branks present,singular,third-person branking participle,present branked participle,past branked past

词汇关系

衍生词
branky

词源

词源 1
Compare Scottish Gaelic brangus, brangas (“a sort of pillory”), Irish brancas (“halter”), or Dutch pranger (“fetter”).
词源 2
Probably of Celtic origin; compare Latin brance, brace, the Gallic name of a particularly white kind of corn.
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