brank

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.
2. noun A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
3. verb To put someone in the branks.
4. verb To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.
5. verb To prance; to caper.
6. noun Buckwheat.

Similar words

scold's bridle braffin brail bridle briddle brattishing brailing brond bradoon throat brail

Often followed by

was is and or fulton vance