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brandywine

/ˈbɹændiwaɪn/

brandywine noun: brandy.

Noun (1)

brandywine (countable and uncountable, plural brandywines)

  1. (archaic) Brandy.
    • Socks dipt in Brandy-wine, and worn, are preventive.1676, Richard Wiseman, “Of Tumours: Of Pernio”, in Eight Chirurgical Treatises, Book I, Ch. XIII
    • Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
      Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
      Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
      Put the brishwood back again—and they'll be gone next day!1906, Rudyard Kipling, A Smuggler's Song

Proper noun capitalized: Brandywine

Brandywine

  1. A stream in Pennsylvania and Delaware (variously called the Brandywine Creek, the Brandywine River, and often just the Brandywine); the Battle of Brandywine was fought along its banks.
  2. A township in Hancock County, Indiana.
  3. A township in Shelby County, Indiana.
  4. A census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland.
  5. An unincorporated community in Summit County, Ohio.
  6. A census-designated place in Pendleton County, West Virginia.

Noun (2) capitalized: Brandywine

Brandywine (plural Brandywines)

  1. An heirloom cultivar of tomato with large potato-leaved foliage and large pink fruit.

Forms of brandywine

pluralbrandywines
pluralBrandywines

Origin of brandywine

Borrowed from Dutch brandewijn. Doublet of brännvin.

Not known with certainty; so named since the 17th century; several long-held hypotheses exist, including a story of casks of brandywine that were spilled in the river's mouth in the colonial era, a fancied resemblance of the turbid water's color to that of brandywine, and an early Euro-American settler whose surname was similar to brandewijn or brandywine.

Unknown; the plant variety has been traced back far into the 19th century by seed savers, but the origin of its name is lost; speculations include the possibility that the fruit's color was likened to that of brandywine, or that the variety was bred in the Brandywine Valley.

Questions about brandywine

What does brandywine mean?
Brandywine means brandy.
What part of speech is brandywine?
Brandywine can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brandywine?
Brandywine is pronounced /ˈbɹændiwaɪn/.
What is the plural of brandywine?
The plural of brandywine is brandywines.

Words near brandywine in the dictionary

  1. brandying
  2. brandyless
  3. brandylike
  4. brandysnap
  5. brandysnaps
  6. brandywine
  7. brandywines
  8. brandzolder
  9. brandzolders
  10. brane
  11. braneless

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