braffin
braffin noun: a horse collar, especially as used in girning.
Noun
braffin (plural braffins)
- A horse collar, especially as used in girning.
- One former winner hung up his braffin aged eighty-eight after seven decades of competing. His talents had improved with age.2012, Jane Peyton, Brilliant Britain
- There were many times when holes had to be dug between the sleepers that held the rails in place to allow the pony to travel, his braffin worn and scrubbed away. These tubs when derailed had to be lifted on with sheer brute strength. The taller pony was used to haul the tubs, usually in two's...2010, Derek Hollows, Voices in the Dark: Pony Talk and Mining Tales, page 79
Forms of braffin
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Origin of braffin
A variant form of bargham (“horse collar”), of which other forms include bahfam, barcom, barfing, bariham, barsham, braffam, and (with the morphemes reversed) hamburgh, from Middle English berw-ham, bergham, from Old English beorgan (“shelter”) + ham (“cover”). Or else, a link with Welsh breuant (“throat”), from Proto-Celtic *brāgants, has been suggested.
Questions about braffin
- What does braffin mean?
- Braffin means a horse collar, especially as used in girning.
- What part of speech is braffin?
- Braffin is a noun.
- What is the plural of braffin?
- The plural of braffin is braffins.
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