broan

Yola

Alternative forms

brone, brand

Etymology

From Middle English brond, from Old English brand, from Proto-West Germanic *brand.

Noun

broan

firebrand
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
  hoat broan
  a hot stick of fire

Derived terms

brandeyrons

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 28

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