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/ˈbɹæŋk/ · noun
A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue..
Your armour gude ye mauna shaw, / Nor yet appear like men o' weir; / As country lads be a' array'd, / Wi' branks and brecham on each mare.
Donald came branking down the brae Wi' twenty thousand men.
One - third of brank-ground , or mixed with any other kind of grain or roots, is as large a proportion as can be given with safety
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Brank means A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue..
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Your armour gude ye mauna shaw, / Nor yet appear like men o' weir; / As country lads be a' array'd, / Wi' branks and brecham on each mare.
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