Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue. · A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
To put someone in the branks. · To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit. · To prance; to caper.
Compare Scottish Gaelic brangus, brangas (“a sort of pillory”), Irish brancas (“halter”), or Dutch pranger (“fetter”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Cognate mentionbrangus,brangasgd
- Cognate mentionbrancasga
- Cognate mentionprangernl
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "gd",
"2": "brangus,brangas",
"3": "",
"4": "a sort of pillory"
},
"expansion": "Scottish Gaelic brangus, brangas (“a sort of pillory”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "brancas",
"3": "",
"4": "halter"
},
"expansion": "Irish brancas (“halter”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "pranger",
"3": "",
"4": "fetter"
},
"expansion": "Dutch pranger (“fetter”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"brangus",
"brangus#Scottish_Gaelic"
],
[
"brangas",
"brangas#Scottish_Gaelic"
],
[
"brancas",
"brancas#Irish"
],
[
"pranger",
"pranger#Dutch"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.",
"A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces."
],
"tags": [
"plural-normally",
"Scotland",
"UK",
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
],
"recordId": "9423c563568fe03bb238d3e9432addfd6ffe0a448c90365ba1dc5237b77c5ee4",
"rawRecordSha256": "8073673a2226d990dc79770641907c07c9b74d0ec833cf905d47b807c13c226d",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 1042822
},
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To put someone in the branks.",
"To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.",
"To prance; to caper."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"UK",
"dialectal"
],
"recordId": "b577582de9ba295527730b73d8b516bd8bad9e3f1dbf078c0465a48676065287",
"rawRecordSha256": "a3e20571f3acfce7690e517a1bc133898d4c638dda2b2a4a6b4bfdd89311f36c",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 1042823
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}