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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A break or opening in anything; a breach; a rent.
  2. n. A flaw; a defect; an imperfection.
  3. n. A broken part; a piece.
  4. To break.
  5. n. Brackish water; salt water.
  6. n. A kind of harrow.
  7. To inspect and assort (produce, etc.) at the Baltic ports by sworn selectors.
  8. n. A long-established system of official inspection and assorting of produce and other goods at the Baltic seaports.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete Salt or brackish water.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
  2. n. obsolete Salt or brackish water.

Etymologies

  1. Middle Dutch brac. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Excerpts or arti­cles behind sub­scrip­tion walls are in brack­ets (I’m not sure if all the Atlantic arti­cles I brack­eted are actu­ally behind sub­scrip­tion walls; but I fig­ured it was safer to assume, so try them even if you’re not a subscriber.)”

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  • “The two-thirds that remained were survivors; they'd learned to sail, they'd learned to pursue the slow-moving turtles and the so-called brack-whales of the southern coast inlets and lagoons.”

    Ship Of Magic

  • “As he spoke, the powerful rotors of two U.S. military helicopters thumped in the distance, and a deliveryman arrived with another truckload of spiced Irish fruitbread, called brack, rebranded "Barack's Brack" for this month and bearing a cartoon portrait of the president.”

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  • “They also baked a special round fruitcake, locally called a "brack," to sell for the occasion - with Obama's picture on the wrapping.”

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  • “I loved hearing my rich family members complaining about being in a higher tax brack their because of all of the money mommy and daddy gave them.”

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  • “He said and I quote, “I no pray funny brack man, but Peking Duck cameo no plobrem.””

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  • “Also the fact of brack to school marking milestones in their lives.”

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  • “Everybody knows there needs to be a brack (ph), which means a commission that meets, that respected, they're bipartisan and they come out with a plan to fix them both, these entitlement systems.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009

  • “October 28th, 2008 7:18 pm ET brb don8in sum moniez 2 brack obama 4 prez!”

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  • “A feminine strand - Earl Grey and barm-brack by the open fire, Joni Mitchell on the stereo.”

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