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Trank vs Brank - What's the difference?

trank | brank |

As nouns the difference between trank and brank

is that trank is tranquilizer while brank is a metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.

As verbs the difference between trank and brank

is that trank is to tranquilize while brank is to put someone in the branks.

trank

English

Alternative forms

* tranq

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) tranquilizer

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To tranquilize.
    • ----

    brank

    English

    Etymology 1

    Compare Gaelic brangus'', ''brangas'', a sort of pillory, Irish ''brancas'', halter, or Dutch ''pranger , fetter.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue
  • (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect, usually, in the plural) A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
    • (Jamieson)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put someone in the branks
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.
  • (Scotland) To prance; to caper.
    • (Jamieson)

    Etymology 2

    Probably of Celtic origin; compare (etyl) (lena) brance, brace, the Gallic name of a particularly white kind of corn.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (UK, dialect) buckwheat
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)

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