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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1569-1641

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Brasche, Brash, v. Also: brache. [Cf. Brasche,n.]

1. tr. To break through or down by assault.1569-73 R. Bann. Memor. 195.
It was spocken that thei sould haue brashed the wall quhair thair batter was made
a1578 Pitsc. I. 303/12.
Quhene they had braschit and win the house
a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxviii. 20.
Quhill they haif brasht the bulwark of my breist
1596 Dalr. II. 144/1.
The castel walis on the ane syd [being] sair braschte and dung doun
1596 Ib. 310/10.
We meruel that … with force thay brache not the toune and entires
1609 Garden Garden 31.
[The] seas … That still does brash and beat their banks
c1611–c1617 Mure Misc. P. i. 24.
He … To brash my breast the battery thus began
1641 Mure Cal. Compl. 98.
A band Not easie to be brash'd by stranger's hand

2. intr. To beat violently at (a door).1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 290.
They went to the said tolbooth, … violentlie brasched and strake at the doores thairof
1641 Elgin Rec. I. 269.
For going to the Old Mylnes … wnder silence of nycht and brasching at Margrat Duncanis dur

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