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Brander, n. Also: brand(e)ir, -eyr, brand(e)ar. [Reduced form of Brandreth. Cf. hunder Hundreth, wander Wandreth.]

1. = Brandreth 1. 1516 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. 418/2.
A great chandlere, a irne brander, … a irne chimney 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 177.
Item ij brandaris, ane haile and ane brokin 1542 Aberd. Univ. Rec. 572.
Ane gret brandar, ane litill brandar 1562 Will Agnes Betoun 225.
Ane small yron brander 1565 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 24 b.
Ane frying pan, thre speittis … and brander 1583 Elgin Rec. I. 172.
Ane irn brander, ane irn ladill, ane speyt 1593 Edinb. Test XXV. 288.
Brander, beif pot, kaill pot 1641 Ib. LX. 14 b.
Ane rosting brander and ane sek 1649 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 781.
Twa branderis, pryce of ilk ane threttie shilling 1651 Buccleuch Mun. II. 291.
Ane brander for ane goospan 1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII. 365.
A draping pan with a standing brander to set it on 1696 Edinb. Test. LXXX. 197 b.
Ane girdell, ane bonnock iron, and brander

2. An iron or wooden structure resembling a gridiron. 1453 Misc. Spald. C. V. 50.
For treis to the brander ande the ankyris 1513 Rentale Dunkeld. MS. 157.
Anthonio M^cDowale … laboranti cum suo seruo circa lie bulwark, centreis & brandeir Ib. 192.
In completione secundi lie brandeir 1515–6 Ib. 216.
Hominibus trahen[tibus] ligna pro lie brandeyr 1529 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 395.
Ane substantious brig … laid with brandaris of ayk, bulwark of aik and stain abowt the said brig 1560–1 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 125.
I tuk the branders of thame and made stagis to the pillaris 1570 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 3.
The samin [pier] is biggit upoune the … brander of aik sett and infixit obefoir 1579 Reg. Privy C. III. 320.
Thre stand burdis sett on brandirs 1591 Misc. Spald. C. III. 161.
Great branderis in milstanes infixt with irne and lead in ilk syde of the water 1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. 179 b.
Danskene Irne to be a brander to the same furnace 1613–14 M. Works Acc. X. 5.
For making of the grit brander to hing the grit dea on in the abbay 1618 Ib. XV. ii. 37 b.
For making a great brander of irone that caryes away the water fra Halyruid hous 1630 Bamff Chart. 222.
Ane hall burd of wynscott with the brander of aik 1698 Foulis Acc. Bk. 230.
To the dean of gild officer for suting Captⁿ J for takeing away my brander at the head of Fosters Wynd