brakie

While shee kept her selfe in this concealment, suspecting other mysterious matters, as her idle imagination had tutord her, rather then the danger of any Wolfe: out of a brakie thicket by her, sodainly rushed a huge and dreadfull Wolfe, as having found her by the sent, mounting uppe, and grasping her throat in his mouth, before she saw him, or could call to heaven for mercy.

The Decameron 2004

I always wanted to be a brakie, and then a yeggman.

Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

The brakie was an old friend o 'mine an' asked me to ride in wit 'him.

The Long Chance 1918

I come out of the bush and took the last car, telling the brakie a much-needed man had got on forward.

Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

"I don't know," said he, "but what the biggest fun in chasing round the country is to get up from a pile of lumber where you've pounded your ear all night and get that funny railroad smell of greasy waste, and then throw your feet for a hand-out and sneak on a blind and go hiking off to some town you've never heard of, with every brakie and constabule out after you.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

But he answered her loudly, so that lurking robbers might overhear: "I know a great big man over there, and he's a friend of mine; he's a brakie on the M. & D., and he lets me ride in the caboose any time I want to, and he's right behind us.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918