Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To break.
- noun Brackish water; salt water.
- noun A kind of harrow.
- noun A break or opening in anything; a breach; a rent.
- noun A flaw; a defect; an imperfection.
- noun A broken part; a piece.
- To inspect and assort (produce, etc.) at the Baltic ports by sworn selectors.
- noun A long-established system of official inspection and assorting of produce and other goods at the Baltic seaports.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
- noun obsolete Salt or brackish water.
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- noun obsolete
Salt orbrackish water .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The two-thirds that remained were survivors; they'd learned to sail, they'd learned to pursue the slow-moving turtles and the so-called brack-whales of the southern coast inlets and lagoons.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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As he spoke, the powerful rotors of two U.S. military helicopters thumped in the distance, and a deliveryman arrived with another truckload of spiced Irish fruitbread, called brack, rebranded "Barack's Brack" for this month and bearing a cartoon portrait of the president.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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They also baked a special round fruitcake, locally called a "brack," to sell for the occasion - with Obama's picture on the wrapping.
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I loved hearing my rich family members complaining about being in a higher tax brack their because of all of the money mommy and daddy gave them.
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Everybody knows there needs to be a brack (ph), which means a commission that meets, that respected, they're bipartisan and they come out with a plan to fix them both, these entitlement systems.
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He said and I quote, “I no pray funny brack man, but Peking Duck cameo no plobrem.”
EDDIE MURPHY PLAYING RICHARD PRYOR IN BIOPIC, IS IT SOMETHING I SAID 2009
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Also the fact of brack to school marking milestones in their lives.
Staying kittenpie 2007
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October 28th, 2008 7:18 pm ET brb don8in sum moniez 2 brack obama 4 prez!
Beat 360° 10/28/08 2008
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A feminine strand - Earl Grey and barm-brack by the open fire, Joni Mitchell on the stereo.
Pointy Heads Laban 2005
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