brank

• ⇰ Buckwheat.
• ⇰ A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
• ⇰ A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

• ⇰ To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
• ⇰ To prance; to caper.