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70 branderis, , “frames of wood for supporting tables” (Jam.).

brandet [bräᶇdət] and brendet [bre$i$ndət],, striped, a) of animals (cows, sheep): having stripes of another ( drab) colour across the body, a b. sheep or coo; , [bre$w$ndət]; b) of woollen yarn, stuff, clothes: striped, having drab or disfiguring stripes, a b. piece o’ claith [‘cloth’]; streaked with dirt, claes [‘clothes’] b. wi’ dirt; [bräᶇdət]; c) of bread baked on the gridiron: burnt across the middle; bread which has got a burnt stripe in the cooking; [bräᶇdət]. brǫndóttur,  brandutt,, striped (with variegated or dark stripes).  brand- in brandkrossóttr: brownish-red with darker vertical stripes and a white cross on the nose (of an ox). branded,, of reddish-brown colour, a branded cow.

bratl, brattel [brat(ə)l, bra$i$t(ə)l, bräƫəl] and bratli [bra$n$tli, bräƫli], , 1) spell of bad weather; wind with rain or sleet, mostly of short duration; a sudden, hard blast with some rain; he cam’ on a b. fae [‘from’] de sooth-east: [bra$i$təl, bräƫəl; bra$i$tli, bräƫli]. 2) squall of wind;. [brat(ə)l]. *bratl (noise; rattle).  bratla, , to bungle (Aa.), to work noisily; tumble about (R.); bratla, , to speak much and quickly ( to make a noise; rattle); brattyl, brattle,, a rattling sound; rapid movement; violent attack. , ,

steep piece of cultivated field. , inter alia = steep fields. may be associated with , ,
 * brattin [bräƫɩn, bräitɩn],, a
 * bratti-nn (or *bratta-n)?  bratta,

bräim, bräima, bräind, bräiner, , see, , $n$, ,

bräinter [brä‘ᶇtər],, = , “bräinter” has arisen from “bäinter”. As both words are sometimes used in the phrase “a burnin’ b.”, older “a (burning, freezing cold) b.”, the inserted r may come from the previous “brinnin”.

bred [brēd, bred],, broad; breiðr, braid (brade). , now with short e; in place-names also with long e, , de b. [brēd], “the broad tongue of land”. The form [brē (bre)] is more common than “bred” in place-names, : Brebister [brē··bɩs·tər, bre··-]: *breiðabólstaðr, de Bredjeld [brēdjēld] , de Bredelds [brēdelds] (Hul, ): brē] : *breiðeið, Bregjo [brēgjo] (at several places): *breiðgjá, Bregoda or -gøda [brē··ꬶȯd·a, -ꬶød·a] : *breiðgata, Bremør [bremər] : *breiðmýrr, Bre [brē]-water (Nibon, ): *breiða vatn, Brewik [brēwɩk] (at several places): *breiðvík — see respectively “bister, deld (djeld), ed, gjo, goda, mør, vatn (water), wik”. Breen [brēən], in “de Hem [hɛm]-Breens” and “de Mid-Breens” (Tumlin, ), field-plots, is the same name as “Breiðin (Breiðvin)”, occurring in place-names; see N.G.
 * breiðdeild (-deildir, ), Bree [*brēe,

bred [bre$i$d, breᶁ],, to melt; liquefy, oil from liver (cod liver) or blubber, to b. oil. . In Foula with dropped i-mutation: [brō, br$i$ō], to b. oil. bræða,, to melt; dissolve.

bred (bret, bræit) [breid, br$b$id, br$2$it, bräi‘t],, only in the : “to b. ane’s boats”, to idle away one’s time; to do nothing useful; doze, doubtless “to tar one’s boats”, ironically used; he (is