branked

Verb

brank (third-person singular simple present branks, present participle branking, simple past and past participle branked)

1. To put someone in the branks.
2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.
3. (Scotland) To prance; to caper.
   • Donald came branking down the brae
     Wi' twenty thousand men.1811, Anne MacVicar Grant, Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland

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