Brae

Word BRAE
Character 4
Hyphenation brae
Pronunciations /bɹeɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Brae"

What do we mean by brae?

A hillside; a slope. noun

The side of a hill or other rising ground; an acclivity; a stretch of sloping ground; a slope. noun

An inclined roadway in a mine: commonly used in compounds: as, cuddy-brae. noun

A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill. noun

The sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside. noun

A slope or hillside noun

The sloping bank of a river valley.

Any hillside or slope.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Brae

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The word "brae" in example sentences

‘That light ye see at the top of the brae is his camp.’ ❋ Unknown (2005)

Don't you see yon bonny, bonny road that lies across the ferny brae, that is the road to fair Elfland, where you and I this night rnaun gae .... ❋ De Lint, Charles, 1951- (1990)

'That light ye see at the top of the brae is his camp.' ❋ John Buchan (1907)

In the house on the brae was a great kettle, called the boiler, that was said to be fifty years old in the days of Hendry's grandfather, of whom nothing more is known. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. "Speaking as a physician, I should say that you would do well to rest here before you go further." ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1894)

There is no nook nor cranny, no bank nor brae, which is not, in the time of roses, ablaze with their exuberant loveliness. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

The word "brae" means slope or declivity; the braes of Doune stretch away east and north from the village. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

"The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. Speaking as a physician, I should say that you would do well to rest here before you go further. " ❋ Unknown (1894)

"The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. "Speaking as a physician, ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Like the side of a brae where the torrent had been. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the side of a brae where the torrents have been. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I walked the other way, too, the way Bird had come from the north-west, past where he'd parked at the top of the brae, and tried to think what it was like, then, for him, waiting at random, waiting to shoot … anyone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was absolute silence—except for a phone ringing downstairs and footsteps clattering down to the print room and a distant bus straining up the steep brae and a flock of gulls swooping by the window. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

Rob laughed, “Halloween,” and tucked her arm under his to walk down the rain-slick cobbles of the brae. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

Sitting at a window table, watching the town pass by, she spotted Bill coming up the brae. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

June 10, 2009 at 6:08 am con cat ululations, annipuss! silly brae shuns? ❋ Unknown (2009)

A d — d deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole it is, and goes straight down from the roadside, as perpendicular as it can do, to be a heathery brae. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So I waited, you see, till I was on the edge of Errickstane-brae — Ye ken the place they call the ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gauntlet, ‘Follow me!’ — whisked under the belly of the dragoon horse — flung my plaid round me with the speed of lightning — threw myself on my side, for there was no keeping my feet, and down the brae hurled I, over heather and fern, and blackberries, like ❋ Unknown (2008)

I could see the villains, like sae mony craws on the edge of the brae; and I reckon that they saw me; for some of the loons were beginning to crawl down the hill, but liker auld wives in their red cloaks, coming frae a field preaching, than such a souple lad as I was. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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