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Definition 2024


braird

braird

English

Noun

braird (uncountable)

  1. (Scotland) The first shoots of grass or crops.
    • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 9:
      …as he opened the various window-boards, loving couples flew off like hares surprised too late in the morning among the early braird.