Word Meanings - BRANDENBURG - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. Smollett.
- Breastplow
Alt. of Breastplough - Broadening
of Broaden - Broadspreading
Spreading widely. - Broadsword
A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. - Breastplough
A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf. - Broadwise
Breadthwise. - Breastrail
The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. - Broad gauge
A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge. - Decoration
The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. - Trimmingly
In a trimming manner. - Breastrope
See Breastband. - Broad-horned
Having horns spreading widely. - BREASTDEEP
Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.
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