Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To waver; totter; shake; reel.
- To shake; agitate; confuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To shake; to totter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
shake ; tototter .
Etymologies
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French brandiller.
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Examples
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Would brandle adamantine heaven with ride and jar, did
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Would brandle adamantine heaven with ride and jar, did
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866
Tootlemonde commented on the word brandle
'Brandle' once meant to "befuddle with brandy".
November 5, 2015