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Definition of Brast
1. v. t. & i. To burst.
Definition of Brast
1. Verb. (archaic) (simple past of burst) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brast
1. burst [v -ING, -S] - See also: burst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brast
| brast (current term) brasting brasts brat bratchet bratchets bratling bratlings bratpack brats | brattice bratticed brattices bratticing brattier |
Literary usage of Brast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"... and how his wounds brast out again. THEN Sir Bors told Sir Launcelot how there
was sworn a great tournament and jousts betwixt King Arthur and the King ..."
2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... But the bolts were gone aud the bars were gone And the looks were riven and
brast. And he caught the pale queen in his arms As the iron footsteps fell,— ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"148. and he was hanged, and lo-brast in the ... gate so s(rongi no ]ocke so firm
and fast, But with that piercing noise flew open quite or brast. ..."
4. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"brast-OFF, v. to start, to begin. Yeth-Bobs, c. ii., p. 33. WAUGH. Silence, lads ;
Jem's gettin' his top-lip ready. 18751 Brasi-o/, Jem. ..."
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