Also 5–7 brall(e, braul(e, brawle. [f. BRAWL v.1]
1. A noisy turbulent quarrel, a ‘row,’ a squabble.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., 190 (Mätz.). Thou has long had thi wille, and made many bralle.
c. 1550. Scot. Poems 16th C., II. 181. Mony leisings make mony braul.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., II. 151. They folishly moue a brawle about the name of First begotten.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., III. 86. Wheresoever any braule began, in London, it ended alwayes in the Old-Jury, with pillaging of the people therein.
1720. Watts, Hymn. Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., II. 242. Astounding the neighbourhood with midnight brawl and ruffian revelry.
1876. Green, Short Hist., vii. § 7. 421. He perished at thirty in a shameful brawl.
† 2. Noisy exclamation, clamor. Obs.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 1 b. I shall have … confuted the most foolish and spitefull braules of Osorius. Ibid., 68. Of opinion that your bare braules, shalbe receaved as infallible truthes.
1611. Bible, Ecclus. xxvii. 14. Their braules make one stop his eares.
