Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of steeping cloth before or after dyeing, or skins preparatory to tanning, in a bath or vat of bran-water.
- noun The process of removing the oil from tin plates during their manufacture, by passing them through a mixture of bran and slaked lime.
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They were the branning ducks, he on one side, she on the other side of the stream, as is their habit, whence they are fabled to be a pair of lovers who must yearn unavailingly through the long nights from opposite banks of the river.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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