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brae - What does it mean?

Definition of 'brae'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Scotland) The sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside.
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
  • Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
  • *1881 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, ''
  • *:Degged with dew, dappled with dew
  • *:Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through
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    Similar to 'brae'

    bore, bare, bere, brie, barre, bree, byre, bure, burye, barye, beroe, boree