America was in some ways earlier in humane elements of consideration for criminals than England, and while women were still wearing the brank in English villages American women no longer feared either gag or cleft stick for unruly tongues.
This brankis depicted in the Reliquary for October, 1860.
By tradition thisbrank was angrily and insultingly given by a gentleman named Chester, who had through the lie of a gossiping woman of Walton lost an expected fortune.
The mode of putting it on would be thus: The brank would be opened by throwing back the sides of the hoop, and the hinder part of the top band by means of the hinges.
It will be noted that the brank is universally spoken of as a punishment for women; but men also were sentenced to wear it--paupers, blasphemers, railers.
Brand and brank have passed away, the stocks and pillory no longer grace our village greens.
Towards the close of the first quarter of the present century, the brank was last used at Altrincham.
In bygone times, the brank was frequently used for correcting unmanageable paupers.
The Leicester brankis similar to the one at Chesterfield.
The mode of putting it on would be thus: the brank would be opened by throwing back the sides of the hoop, and the hinder part of the band by means of the hinges, C, F, F.
A second brank was kept in the prison, principally formed of leather, but with an iron tongue-piece.
At the north country town of Morpeth a brankis still preserved.
In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, a curiousbrank may be seen.
The brank is not of such great antiquity as the ducking-stool, for the earliest mention of it we have been able to find in this country is in the Corporation records of Macclesfield, of the year 1623.
Kirkham had itsbrank for scolds, in addition to a ducking-stool.
With a brank on her head she was conducted through the streets, led by a chain, held by one of the town's officials, an object of contempt, and subjected to the jeers of the crowd and often left to their mercy.
A brank certainly in one recorded case cured a woman from coarse invective and abuse.
It was called the brank or scold's bridle, and probably came to us from Scotland with the Solomon of the North, whither the idea of it had been conveyed through the intercourse of that region with France.
The brank was put over the head, and was fastened with a padlock.
At this interview Brank inveighed against his whimsical ward for his love of speculating in lottery tickets, and told the servant that his principal duty would be to purchase them.
Four hundred pounds in Bank-of-England notes were handed him, and the wishes of the mysterious Mr. Brank were satisfactorily effected.
After one or two meetings, at each of which Brank kept his face muffled, he handed a forty and twenty pound Bank note; told the servant to be very careful not to lose them, and directed him to buy lottery-tickets at separate offices.
The house in Titchfield street was searched; but Mr. Brank had deserted it, and not a trace of a single implement of forgery was to be seen.
At this interview, Brank inveighed against his whimsical ward for his love of speculating in lottery tickets; and told the servant that his principal duty would be to purchase them.
The house in Titchfield-street was searched; but Mr. Brank had deserted it, and not a trace of a single implement of forgery was to be seen.
Four hundred pounds in Bank of England notes were handed him, and the wishes of the mysterious Mr. Brank were satisfactorily effected.
After one or two meetings, at each of which Brank kept his face muffled, he handed a forty and twenty pound bank note; told the servant to be very careful not to lose them; and directed him to buy lottery-tickets at separate offices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
