Word Meaning

Meaning of branks

- Buckwheat.
- Alt. of Branks
- To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
- To prance; to caper.
- A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
- 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.