Word Meaning

branks definition and meaning

n. Buckwheat.
n. Alt. of Branks
v. i. To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
v. i. To prance; to caper.
n. A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
n. A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.