brae

Etymology

From Old Norse brá.

Noun

brae (plural braes)

1. (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, Inversnaid

     Degged with dew, dappled with dew

     Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through

   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 19:

     The party was in a big bungalow with an enormous brae for a garden.

Anagrams

• Aber, Bare, Baré, Bear, Brea, Reba, bare, bear, rabe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbreɪ/

Noun

brae (plural braes)

1. a hillside, hill
2. a slope or bank