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Definition of Brack
1. n. An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
2. n. Salt or brackish water.
Definition of Brack
1. a flaw in cloth [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brack
Literary usage of Brack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"A» taut 'e brad; ie as salt as brack ; used to denote what is very salt, but confined
... It ¡a equivalent to n к »alt a» lict, used elsewhere, S. brack, e. ..."
2. Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from 1766 to 1791 by David Dalrymple, Scotland Court of Session, Mungo Ponton Brown (1826)
"Isobel, the second daughter of William Hutchinson, insisted in an action before
the Sheriff of Roxburghshire, concluding against William brack ..."
3. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1824)
"brack- in > r. Fonda, 12 Johns. Rep. 468. So, it will lie against a physician
for mingling poisonous drugs with wine, and causing another to drink it off, ..."
4. American Notes and Queries edited by William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris (1890)
"brack. For the noun brack, in the sense which we are about to discuss, ...
There is a corresponding verb to brack, meaning to assort, to cull. ..."
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