Joseph Thayendanegea, 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
a male given name.
First recorded in 1535–45; short for brantgoose, brentgoose; akin to Old Norse brandgās, German Brandgans
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The road would traverse a narrow isthmus densely dotted with shallow fresh water ponds that separates lagoons holding the world’s largest eel grass beds vital to emperor geese, brant and eiders.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
They are forming salt marshes that more closely resemble a golf green than the Arctic tundra -- habitat that happens to be perfect for black brant geese.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2014
It serves as a migratory stop for 98 percent of the world’s Pacific black brant as the bird makes its way south to Mexico for the winter.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2013
In the second room 25 similarly arranged images from the series “On Any Given Day in Spring” take a quite different tack, capturing wide open beaches dotted with flocks of shorebirds called brant.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2012
I only know of the following places within the Pacific Coast shooting grounds where the black sea brant is found.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom
Collectors, including Brant, will be looking closely at what Banksy is able to create next, which also may alter the artist’s auction prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
“It’s difficult to purchase work by someone who’s working so hard to avoid being known because you’re buying folklore,” Brant said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
The second favorite at 5-2 is undefeated Brant, who is trained by Baffert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
Between the bank’s additions of Cadence and Veritex, Huntington is “building a powerful financial powerhouse in Texas,” Brant Standridge, who leads the firm’s consumer and regional banking, told analysts on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
Our English teacher, Mr. Brant, had us writing short fiction as well as reading Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
It concluded that both would have “major” impacts on brants, tundra swans, emperor geese, bears, fish and, potentially, caribou.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2017
But today, the numbers have switched: About 70 percent of the black brants now molt along the coast, having discovered the recent expansion of a new rich food source along the Beaufort Sea.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2014
By and bye—for they found she was heavier than they expected—the brants let the woman fall too.
From The Strange Story Book by Lang, Mrs. Andrew
Then follow the brants, wavey, or laughing geese, which are all smaller varieties.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.
But the brants did not know this, and as soon as they heard her they flew down and carried her off on their wings.
From The Strange Story Book by Lang, Mrs. Andrew
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