brak
1 Britishadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of brak1
C19: Afrikaans
Origin of brak2
C20: from Afrikaans, literally: setter
Example Sentences
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Twice, fause maid! ye brak your vow; Twice, poor fool!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
The girdin brak, the beast cam down, I tint my curch, and baith my shoon; Ah!
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
The keeper syne brak aff his chains, And set Lord Beichan at libertie:— She fill'd his pockets baith wi' gowd, To tak him till his ain countrie.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
I lean'd my back unto an aik, And thought it was a trusty tree, But first it bow'd, and syne it brak, Sae my true love did lightly me.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
Her grief brak out sae fierce and fell, I thought her heart wad burst the shell; And,—I was sae left to mysel',— I sell't her an annuity.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
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