brandis

plural brandises

1. CornwallDevonarchaicA triangular fire stand; trivet.

   I'll bush the fire a bit, if you'll leave me do it, and git un up all of a broze under the brandis. (She puts furze on the fire.)

   1956, Robert Morton Nance, Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, The Cledry Plays (page 47)

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   These stones are then placed, as the country people have it, “brandis-wise” ; that is, in the form of a brandis, the name by which the triangular stands on which the kettles are set on the hearth are called.

   1887, William Crossing, The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor, Exeter: James G Commin, page 95

1. A surname.