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Bramah

American  
[bram-uh, brah-muh] / ˈbræm ə, ˈbrɑ mə /

noun

  1. Joseph, 1748–1814, English engineer and inventor.


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AJ Bramah scored 12 points with nine rebounds for the Colonials, while Jon Williams added 10 points.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2020

AJ Bramah added 12 points with eight boards and Jalen Hawkins also had 12 points.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2019

“We believed before the Exhibition opened that we had the best locks in the world,” wrote the Times, “and among us Bramah and Chubb were reckoned quite as impregnable as Gibraltar.”

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2013

But there was more to the defeats of Chubb and Bramah.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2013

Boz also makes several allusions to the inventor, Bramah, mentioning Bramah locks and keys with plugs, &c. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald

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