Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hillside; a slope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The side of a hill or other rising ground; an acclivity; a stretch of sloping ground; a slope.
- noun An inclined roadway in a mine: commonly used in compounds: as, cuddy-brae.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland The sloping
bank of a river-valley; anyslope orhillside .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slope or hillside
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word brae.
Examples
-
‘That light ye see at the top of the brae is his camp.’
-
Don't you see yon bonny, bonny road that lies across the ferny brae, that is the road to fair Elfland, where you and I this night rnaun gae ....
-
'That light ye see at the top of the brae is his camp.'
-
In the house on the brae was a great kettle, called the boiler, that was said to be fifty years old in the days of Hendry's grandfather, of whom nothing more is known.
-
"The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. "Speaking as a physician, I should say that you would do well to rest here before you go further."
-
There is no nook nor cranny, no bank nor brae, which is not, in the time of roses, ablaze with their exuberant loveliness.
-
The word "brae" means slope or declivity; the braes of Doune stretch away east and north from the village.
-
"The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. Speaking as a physician, I should say that you would do well to rest here before you go further. "
-
"The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. "Speaking as a physician,
-
Like the side of a brae where the torrent had been.
fbharjo commented on the word brae
brae brow of a hill or eye
January 16, 2007