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braid
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English braiden, breiden, bræiden, from Old English bre?dan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdan? (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r??-, *b?r??- (“to shine, shimmer”).
Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).
Alternative forms
- brayde, breyde, broid (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?e?d/
- Homophone: brayed
- Rhymes: -e?d
Verb
braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past and past participle braided)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
- (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
- (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
- To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
- (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
Derived terms
- umbraid
- upbraid
Translations
Noun
braid (plural braids)
- (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11th-17thc.]
- A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16thc.]
- A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
- A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
- A fancy; freak; caprice.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of R. Hyrde to this entry?)
Translations
Further reading
- braid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- braid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Braids on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
Adjective
braid (comparative more braid, superlative most braid)
- (obsolete) Deceitful.
Anagrams
- Baird, bidar, rabid
Gothic
Romanization
braid
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Irish
Noun
braid f
- (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of brad
Mutation
Middle English
Noun
braid
- Alternative form of breid
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unbraid
English
Etymology
un- +? braid
Verb
unbraid (third-person singular simple present unbraids, present participle unbraiding, simple past and past participle unbraided)
- To disentangle the strands of a braid
Translations
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