brank

A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a scold and restrain the tongue.

A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.

Your armour gude ye mauna shaw, / Nor yet appear like men o' weir; / As country lads be a' array'd, / Wi' branks and brecham on each mare.

To put someone in the branks.

To hold up and toss the head; applied to horses as spurning the bit.

To prance; to caper.

Donald came branking down the brae Wi' twenty thousand men.

Buckwheat.

One - third of brank-ground , or mixed with any other kind of grain or roots, is as large a proportion as can be given with safety