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Brise vs Prise - What's the difference?

brise | prise |

As nouns the difference between brise and prise

is that brise is a tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time while prise is an enterprise.

As a verb prise is

to force (open) with a lever; to pry.

brise

English

Noun

  • (obsolete, rare) A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
  • * 1616 : Richard Surflet [tr.] and Gervase Markham [aug.], Estienne and Liébault’s Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme , page 92
    • Afterward let him draw a Brise or two made fast in the yoke.

    References

    * “ †brise]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

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    prise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (verb) prize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An enterprise.
    • (Spenser)

    • See also

    * price

    Verb

    (pris)
  • To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
    • 1919: I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. — , The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
    c. 1925: Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! — Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
    2004: Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products. — BBC News

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