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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

brank

/brangk/US // bræŋk //

曲柄,曲棍球,曲轴,曲奇

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
    • : to bridle; restrain.

Examples

  • Brand and brank have passed away, the stocks and pillory no longer grace our village greens.

  • The brank, or imprisonment, or the pillory, was the sentence usually pronounced on these rebellious wives.

  • Staffordshire supplies several notable examples of the brank.

  • We find, in the same county, traces of the brank at Holme, in the Forest of Rossendale.

  • 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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