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Brank
Brank Brank, v. i.
1. To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as
spurning the bit. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
2. To prance; to caper. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
Brank
Brank Brank, n. [Prov. of Celtic origin; cf. L. brance, brace,
the Gallic name of a particularly white kind of corn.]
Buckwheat. [Local, Eng.] --Halliwell.
Brank
Brank Brank, Branks Branks, n. [Cf. Gael. brangus, brangas,
a sort of pillory, Ir. brancas halter, or D. pranger fetter.]
1. A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. [Scot. & Prov.
Eng.] --Jamieson.
2. A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for
correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame
surrounding the head and having a triangular piece
entering the mouth of the scold.
Meaning of Brank from wikipedia
- bridle,
sometimes called a witch's bridle, a gossip's bridle, a
brank's bridle, or
simply branks, was an
instrument of punishment, as a form of
public humiliation...
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Robert Brank Vance (1793 –
November 6, 1827) was a
Congressional Representative from
North Carolina. He was born on
Reems Cr****, near Asheville, North...
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Ephraim McLean Brank (August 1, 1791 -
August 5, 1875) was a
Kentucky soldier in the War of 1812,
noted for his
exceptional marksmanship which pla****...
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Robert Brank Vance (April 24, 1828 –
November 28, 1899),
nephew of the
earlier Congressman Robert Brank Vance (1793–1827) and
brother of
Zebulon B. Vance...
- The
Bronx (/
brɒŋks/ BRONKS) is the
northernmost of the five
boroughs of New York City,
coextensive with
Bronx County, in the U.S.
state of New York. It...
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Peter Paul
Brang (1852–1925) was a
Viennese architect who
worked in what are
today the
Czech Republic and Slovenia, as well as in
Bulgaria and Romania...
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Illustration of
brank and drunkard's cloak...
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Archived from the
original (PDF) on
March 4, 2011.
Retrieved 2013-10-28.
Brank EM,
Hoetger LA,
Hazen KP (December 2012). "Bullying".
Annual Review of Law...
- or the use of a
device such as a Scold's
bridle (also
referred to as a
branks). A head
harness may
include a
blindfold and/or gag. The enca****t may...
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Tanya Moodie as
Gundabale Earthauler Robert Strange as Glûg
Zates Atour as
Brânk Arkie Reece as
Kilta Bridie Sisson as the
Dweller Stuart Bowman as Barduk...
