brak
1 Britishadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of brak1
C19: Afrikaans
Origin of brak2
C20: from Afrikaans, literally: setter
Example Sentences
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I wat she was a sheep o’ sense, An’ could behave hersel wi’ mense: I’ll say’t, she never brak a fence, Thro’ thievish greed.
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 Burns, Robert
I houp the young laddie winna brak his neck.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon
Ob coorse we brak folk only knows what we’ve heerd.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
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 Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
“I hope it winna brak o’er the district.”
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon
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