To bear the brunt of. Bare (N.E.D.).
1848. Were such to be entitled to the same remuneration as those who had brunted the whole war, and been engaged in almost every battle?—Mr. Atchison of Missouri in the U.S. Senate, June 15: Congressional Globe, p. 843.
1859. Brunting the chilling fogs of a winter’s afternoon, in England.—I. Taylor, ‘Logic in Theology,’ p. 194 (N.E.D.).
