Branks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 104 anagrams from letters in branks (abknrs).
1585-95; perhaps to be identified with Middle English bernak “bridle, snaffle”; see barnacle2
The branks was a species of iron mask, with a gag so contrived as to enter the mouth and forcibly hold down the unruly member.
The Session (of Glasgow) appoint jorgs and branks to be made for punishing flyters.
Who has not heard of the Langholm witches, and the branks to subdue them?
If that did not stop the rancour of their tongues he tried the effect of an instrument called the "branks."
They'll need to stand on a baikie that put the branks on him.
It belongs to a class of engines far more formidable than branks.
The horse had neither saddle nor bridle, but only a branks (or halter) about its head.
The brutality of the stronger and governing to the weaker and subject sex was not limited to the ducking-stool and branks.
A man and his wife were ordered to stand at the Kirk-style with the branks in their mouths.
At Oswestry are two branks, one belonging to the Corporation, and the other is in the store-room of the Workhouse.
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