Brae vs Brad - What's the difference?
brae | brad |
(Scotland) The sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
*1881 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, ''
*:Degged with dew, dappled with dew
*:Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through
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A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 5:
A , a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
As a noun brae
is (scotland) the sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside.As an adjective brad is
sudden, fast, busy, full of hurry.brae
English
Noun
(en noun)- Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
brad
English
Noun
(en noun)- Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.