brank
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æŋk
Etymology 1
Compare Gaelic brangus, brangas, a sort of pillory, Irish brancas, halter, or Dutch pranger, fetter.
Noun
brank (plural branks)
Verb
brank (third-person singular simple present branks, present participle branking, simple past and past participle branked)
Etymology 2
Probably of Celtic origin; compare Latin brance, brace, the Gallic name of a particularly white kind of corn.
Noun
brank (uncountable)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brank in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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