brandiron

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noun

A type of kitchen utensil, especially a gridiron.

OriginMiddle English brandiren →
First used 14th–19th c.Scrabble 12
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Meanings

nounbrandiron (plural brandirons)

plural brandirons

  1. obsoleteA type of kitchen utensil, especially a gridiron.First known use 14th–19th c.
  2. obsoleteA type of sword.First known use 16th–17th c.

    The villaine met him in the middle fall, / And with his club bet backe his brondyron bright […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbrandiren
  2. Englishbrandiron

From Middle English brandiren, variant of brandire, equivalent to brand + iron.

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APA

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Chicago

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