Sc. Obs. [app. f. brank, sing. of BRANKS1.] trans. To bridle, restrain; to put in the branks. Also fig.
1574. Glasgow Burgh. Rec., in Wilson, Sc. Archæol., 692. Gif thai flyte to be brankit.
a. 1600. Scot. Poems 16th C. (1801), II. 194. We sall gar brank you Before that time trewly.
1664. Mem. Dr. Spottiswood (1811), 74 (Jam.). They feared also that ther estaittes might be branked iff Bischops wer in such authoritie and creditt.
