brashy

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Examples

• The ice proved brashy, soft to each step, and the men slithered through the water up to the armpits as they carried the canoes.

• The ground was brashy and very poor, and consequently I determined to clear the boxes and put the whole of the manure upon it.

• Cornbrash, so called from its 'brashy' or rubbly nature, an earthy oolite yielding fair land for corn.

• The lower limbs are brashy and bare of bark, and the ones above are leafless and gnarled, although alive.