branks

英式音标：[bræŋks]

美式音标：[bræŋks]

概况：

n. 荞麦

词义：

n.

口钳（用来惩罚好骂街的泼妇的一种刑具），马嚼子；

用法：

权威例句

HEAD ACCELERATIONS DURING SOCCER BALL HEADING: INFLUENCE OF SOCCER BALL TYPE, SIZE AND INFLATION PRESSURE

ENERGY COST OF SPRING BOOT AND SHOE RUNNING

I Am Napoleon with a Waterloo

STEROIDS SUBSTITUTED AT POSITION 17 BY A NITROMETHYLENE RADICAL, AND THEIR USE IN THE PREPARATION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS

Physiological cost of running while wearing spring-boots.

In vivo characterization of bioconjugate B cell toleragens with specificity for autoantibodies in antiphospholipid syndrome

Effect of level of activation on the quality and efficiency of performance of verbal and motor tasks

Noninvasive imaging of atherosclerotic lesions in apolipoprotein E-deficient and low-density-lipoprotein receptor-deficient mice wit...

Patterns of gene expression in the murine brain revealed by in situ hybridization of brain-specific mRNAs

IgG red blood cell autoantibodies in autoimmune hemolytic anemia bind to epitopes on red blood cell membrane band 3 glycoprotein.

英语词源：

branks (n.)

1590s, of unknown origin, perhaps from a North Sea Germanic language. An instrument of punishment for women, originally Scottish, it was a kind of iron cage for the head with a metal bit attached to still the tongue.

Paide for caring a woman throughe the towne for skoulding, with branks, 4d. ["Municipal Accounts of Newcastle," 1595]

"Ungallant, and unmercifully severe, as this species of torture seems to be, Dr. Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, much prefers it to the cucking stool, which, he says, 'not only endangers the health of the party, but also gives the tongue liberty 'twixt every dip.' " [Brockett, "A Glossary of North Country Words,"1829].