Obs. Also 3 brutle, ? 6 britle, 7 bryttle. [A freq. form from BRIT, BRITTEN v.] trans. To cut to pieces; to cut up (a deer).
c. 1275. O. E. Misc., 92. Seynt Thomas wes biscop, and barunes him quolde, Heo brutlede him.
Boy & Mantle, in Child, Coll. Ballads (1861), I. 15. He britled the bores head Wonderous weele.
1865. S. Evans, Bro. Fabian, 58. The bravest man That ever brittled a deer.
