brank
/brangk/US // bræŋk //
曲柄,曲棍球,曲轴,曲奇
Definitions
v.无主动词 verb
- 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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