(historical) A punishment device, especially for scolding women, consisting of a cage to enclose the head, with a metal gag for the mouth; a scold's bridle.

(usually in the plural) A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.

To put someone in the branks. / (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit. / (Scotland) To prance; to caper.

(UK, dialect) Buckwheat.

simple past tense and past participle of brank

present participle of brank

A suburb of Poole in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0592). / A suburb in Darlington borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2616).

A surname.