breakly

comparative more breakly · superlative most breakly

1. Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

   Daylight was breakly dimly through wild-looking clouds upon a world of tumultuous waters.

   1889, Charles Lotin Hildreth, The mysterious city of Oo: adventures in Orbello Land

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   Our ash is not tough and hard like that, but has an open grain, and is among the most brash or breakly of our timbers.

   1842, Edmund Ruffin, Farmers' register

   "I never thought I 'd say what I 'm going to," she said at last; "it seems indecent; but I can't have you sitting around this way, acting as if I was a piece of cracked chiny that you'd got to handle mighty gingerly or it would drop all to pieces. I ain't so breakly. [...]"

   1893, Bessie Chandler, A woman who failed: and others

comparative more breakly · superlative most breakly

1. In a breakly manner.

   Surface longitudinal breakly furrowed, slight lustrous, orange-brown.

   2007, Vít Bojňanský, Agáta Fargašová, Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora