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brank
[ brangk ]
verb (used without object)
- to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- to bridle; restrain.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of brank1
1500–50; brank ( def 1 ) of uncertain origin; possibly related to German prangen “to adorn oneself, brag”; compare Middle High German brangen, brankieren; possibly 1550-1600; brank ( def 2 ) of uncertain origin; probably a back formation from Scots branks “a bridle for restraining a scold”
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Example Sentences
Brand and brank have passed away, the stocks and pillory no longer grace our village greens.
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The brank, or imprisonment, or the pillory, was the sentence usually pronounced on these rebellious wives.
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Staffordshire supplies several notable examples of the brank.
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We find, in the same county, traces of the brank at Holme, in the Forest of Rossendale.
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These cheeks correspond to the two parallel levers called the "branches" of a bridle, and brank is the Norman branque, branch.
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