braid

To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.

To start into motion.

To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.

Braid your locks with rosy twine.

To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.

To reproach; to upbraid.

Great King, / Few loue to heare the ſinnes they loue to act, / T'would brayde your ſelfe too neare for me to tell it […]

A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.

And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (and in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore)[…].

He fixt vpon my face, which to my death / Will neuer part fro me, when with a braide / A deepe fet sigh he gaue, and therewithall / Clasping his handes, to heauen he cast his sight.

A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

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 caprice or outburst of passion or anger.

Let the maide learne none uncleanly words, or wanton, or uncomely gesture and moving of the body, no not so much as when she is yet ignorant what shee doth, and innocent; for shee shall doe the same, when shee is growne bigger and of more discretion, […] And oftentimes such braides come uppon them against their will.

Crafty, deceitful.

Since Frenchmen are so braid, / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.