brack

See also: Brack

English

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch brak.

Noun

brack (uncountable)

1. (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,

Etymology 2

Compare Dutch braak.

Noun

brack (plural bracks)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

brack (countable and uncountable, plural bracks)

1. Barmbrack.

Further reading

• “brack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Scots

Verb

brack (third-person singular simple present brackin, present participle brackit, simple past brackit, past participle brackit)

1. Doric Scots form of brak (“to break”)

   Mind an da brack aat!

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