arch. Also brable-. [f. as prec. + -MENT.] Cavilling, quibbling (obs.); noisy quarrelling, contentious uproar (now chiefly dial.).
1556. Abp. Parker, Psalter cvi. 16. They provokt with wrath … Aaron … wyth foolish brablementes.
a. 1563. Bale, Sel. Wks. (1849), 176. Are not Christ and his disciples teachers sufficient enough … but we must have unsavoury brabblements?
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 68 b. Contention … is euer in Armes, neuer out of brabblements.
1824. Craven Dial., 23. Hees ollas agait o’ some brabblement.
1876. Daily News, 28 Sept., 5/3. The Commune was a time of extraordinary ‘brabblement’—to use a word of Carlyle’s.
