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▪ I. brander, n.1|ˈbrændə(r)|
[f. brand v. + -er.]
One who brands.
1860Rawlinson Herodotus vii. xxxv. IV. 36 He [Xerxes] bade the branders take their irons and therewith brand the Hellespont.
▪ II. ˈbrander, n.2 Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial.
Also 5 brandyr, 6 brandire.
[Variant of brandiron.]
A gridiron. See also brandise, brandiron, brandreth.
c1450Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 626 Tripos, brondyre. 1587in Wadley Bristol Wills (1886) 251 My great pan and brandire and Pykes thervnto belonginge. 1708Inv. in E. W. Dunbar Soc. Life Moray 212 (D.) A frying-pan, two branders. 1815Scott Guy M. xxiv, A couple of fowls..reeking from the gridiron or brander.
▪ III. brander, v.1 Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.|ˈbrændə(r)|
[f. prec.]
trans. and intr. To cook on the gridiron, broil, grill. Hence ˈbrandered ppl. a., brandering vbl. n., as in brandering steak.
c1782Sir T. Sinclair Scott. Dial. 172 (Jam.) The Scots also say to brander for to broil meat. 1814Scott Wav. lxiv, ‘I'll brander the moor-fowl that John Heatherblutter brought in this morning.’ c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. III. 37 Brandered kidneys. 1848Forster Life Goldsm. i. iv, A brandered chop served up.
▪ IV. ˈbrander, v.2
[prob. f. brander n.2, as if ‘to arrange cross-bars in the form of a gridiron’; but cf. F. brandir under branded ppl. a.2]
Hence ˈbrandering vbl. n., ‘the covering of the under-side of joists with battens{ddd}to nail the laths to, in order to secure a better key for the plaster of a ceiling’ (Spon Dict. Engineer. 1869.) |