branks / bræŋks /
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branks 的定义
n. 名词 noun- Sometimes brank . a device consisting of a headpiece with a flat, iron bit to restrain the tongue, formerly used to punish scolds.
更多branks例句
- If that did not stop the rancour of their tongues he tried the effect of an instrument called the "branks."
- I'll be in Dumfries the morn gif the beast be to the fore, and the branks bide hale.
- An uncomfortable bridle which used to be employed to silence scolds was called the branks.
- The branks was a species of iron mask, with a gag so contrived as to enter the mouth and forcibly hold down the unruly member.
- The brutality of the stronger and governing to the weaker and subject sex was not limited to the ducking-stool and branks.