brandreth

plural brandreths · alternative brandrith

1. historicalA tripod or stand for a cask, a haystack, etc.

   Paid for working 5 stone of iron of the old “brandreth” at 2d. 10d.

   1837, The Publications of the Surtees Society, page ccccxx

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   […] the girdle was less and lighter, and upon an iron tripod, called a brandreth […]

   2006, Bill Griffiths, Stotty 'n' Spice Cake: The Story of North East Cooking, Northumbria University Press, page 104

2. obsoleteA railing around a well.

1. A surname.
2. A fell in the Lake District, Cumbria, England