brank /ˈbɹeɪ̯ŋk/verb 3noun 3forms 3 verb3 •To put someone in the branks. •(dialect, UK) To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit. •(Scotland) To prance; to caper.Donald came branking down the brae Wi' twenty thousand men. — 1811 noun[usually plural]3 •A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue. •(dialect, UK) Buckwheat.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 — 1842 •(dialect, no longer used) A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.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. — 1802 formsbranked · branking · branks
