brak
1 Britishadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of brak1
C19: Afrikaans
Origin of brak2
C20: from Afrikaans, literally: setter
Example Sentences
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He saw Misfortune’s cauld nor-west Lang mustering up a bitter blast; A jillet brak his heart at last, Ill may she be!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
It wad brak my hert to pairt wi' the buiks afore I got them pitten in dacent order.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
The ankers brak, and the tap-masts lap, It was sic a deadlie storm; And the waves cam' owre the broken ship, Till a' her sides were torn.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
They ran their horse on the Langholme howm, And brak their spears wi’ mickle main; The ladies lukit frae their lofty windows— “God bring our men weel hame again!”
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
Is my heart no like aneugh to brak its strings, but ye maun tug at them?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
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