brack
See also: Brack
English
Etymology 1
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch brak.
Noun
brack (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
- Michael Drayton
- The very earth to fill the hungry mawe;
- When they far'd best, they fed on Fearne and brack,
- Michael Drayton
Etymology 2
Noun
brack (plural bracks)
- An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
- c. 1624, John Fletcher, A Wife for a Day, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- You may find time out in eternity,
- Deceit and violence in heavenly Justice,
- Life in the grave, and death among the blessed,
- Ere stain or brack in her sweet reputation.
- c. 1624, John Fletcher, A Wife for a Day, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- A flaw in cloth.
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 164,[2]
- […] You must take care that all the bracks and rents in the Linen be duly mended.
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 164,[2]
Etymology 3
Shortening.
Noun
brack (countable and uncountable, plural bracks)
Further reading
- “brack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Scots
Verb
brack (third-person singular simple present brackin, present participle brackit, simple past brackit, past participle brackit)
- Doric Scots form of brak (“to break”)
- Mind an da brack aat!
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)