10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRATTLINGS»
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Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases
c.c. H.s. t.G. BRATTLINGS. Loppings from felled trees. F.e.A. H.P. BRAVELY. In
good health ; vastly well. Todd says, a common expression in the North of
England; and so it is in the Midland Counties. B.N.C. F.e.A. H.H. C.C. P.D.
BRAZEN.
Anne Elizabeth Baker, 1854
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The Dialect And Folx-Lore Of Northamptonshire
BRATTLINGS, n. Loppings from felled trees. For. BRAVE, s. Hearty, in good
health. " Old Gaffer's lookin quite brave." BRAWN, n. A boar pig. Ev. For. Hart. "
Sir Thomas Androwes, a worshipfull knighte of Northamptonshire, was by a
yeomanly ...
From wherever vile brattlings thrust from unclean heathen bellies come.” Gritting
her teeth, Aradia began lathering her arms. “You knew he was evil even at birth?
You are an astute woman.” “Meridia knew him for what he was the moment she ...
Charlotte Boyett-Compo, 2006
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A General Dictionary of Provincialisms: Written with a View ...
BRATTLINGS, s. [From the verb.] Loppings from felled trees. Norf. BRAVELY, adv
. Very much recovered from sickness. Norf. Suff. In good health York. Hants.
Sussex. Kent. Finely, gayly. York. BRAWN, s. A bore. Forby observes it is an
ancient ...
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Researcher's Glossary: Of Words Found in Historical ...
1665: bratled wood.. .made little faggots to be bumt in chamber chimneys.
brattlings products of brattling. 1319: Bretlants. brayden, brayding ME brayen,
from OFr. breier, to beat small, crush, pulverise. 1590: one brayding stock [block
of wood] .
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The vocabulary of East Anglia: an attempt to record the ...
... adj. applied to land, overgrown with faint grass, rushes, or twigs. Teut. braasch,
fragilis. BRATTLE, v. to lop the branches of trees after they are felled.
BRATTLINGS, s. pi. loppings from felled trees. BRAVELY, adv. very much
recovered from ...
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Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft: A Handbook for Visitors and ...
... a shrubz twig; rasach,full 0 twig? rasan, brushwood. Raiis,Goth.,is a rush, in Sc.
, a rash. The Ger. as bruchig, full of holes, boggy, marshy, brittle, fragile. Fr.,
buschailles, small twigs. _ _ BRATTLINGS. Su.-Goth., briile, brutla, applied to
heaps ...
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Asiatic Mythology: A Detailed Description and Explanation of ...
... to a passing woodcutter; the one who was still clumsy and could not manage to
take flight, and ended by getting beaten to death by a peasant who was sick of
the noise of his brattlings while he made his unsuccessful attempts; and so on.
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Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases, with ...
C.C. H.s. t.G. BRATTLINGS. Loppings from felled trees. F.e.A. H.P. BRAVELY. In
good health; vastly well. Todd says, a common expression in the North of
England; and so it is in the Midland Counties. B. N.C. F.e.A. H.H. C.C. P.D.
BRAZEN.
Anne Elizabeth Baker, 1854
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The Vocabulary of East-Anglia Etc. - London, J. B. Nicols 1830
... overgrown with faint grass, rushes, or twigs. Teut. braasch, fragilis. BRATTLE, '
v. to lop the branches of trees after they are felled. BRATTLINGS, s. pl. loppings
from felled trees. BR AVELY, adv. very much recovered from sickness. BRAWN, s
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