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brack

/bɹæk/

brack noun: salty or brackish water. Also the pronunciation spelling of black.

Noun (1)

brack (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
    • The very earth to fill the hungry mawe;
      When they far'd best, they fed on Fearne and brack,1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “The Moone-calfe”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC

Noun (2)

brack (plural bracks)

  1. An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
    • You may find time out in eternity,
      Deceit and violence in heavenly Justice,
      Life in the grave, and death among the blessed,
      Ere stain or brack in her sweet reputation.1624 June 6 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher, “A Wife for a Moneth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published...
  2. A flaw in cloth.
    • […] You must take care that all the bracks and rents in the Linen be duly mended.1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 164

Noun (3)

brack (countable and uncountable, plural bracks)

  1. Barmbrack.
    • MAIRE MIRKIN (played by Brid Brennan): ”Sit down please the both of you. You’ve intruded right into the middle of our nightcap, young man. I was just about to serve a toddy to Hector and myself. Can I fix you one?”.
      ARM (played by Cosmo Jarvis): A wha…?
      HECTOR: Do, dear, yeah. And, um (clicks...2020 January 6, Joe Murtagh, Colin Barrett, 01:18:44 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Hector (David Wilmott)

Proper noun capitalized: Brack

Brack (plural Bracks)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

brack is also the pronunciation spelling of black.

Forms of brack

Noun
pluralbracks
Adjective
comparativebracker
comparativemore brack
superlativebrackest
superlativemost brack
Proper noun
pluralBracks

Origin of brack

From Middle Dutch brac (whence Dutch brak). More at brackish.

Compare Dutch braak.

Shortening.

Words formed from brack

Phrases with brack

Questions about brack

What does brack mean?
Brack means salty or brackish water.
What part of speech is brack?
Brack can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brack?
Brack is pronounced /bɹæk/.
What is the plural of brack?
The plural of brack is bracks.

Words near brack in the dictionary

  1. bracingness
  2. bracings
  3. braciola
  4. braciole
  5. bracioles
  6. brack
  7. brackebuschite
  8. Brackeen
  9. Brackeens
  10. bracken
  11. Bracken County

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