·noun Buckwheat.
II. Brank ·noun ·Alt. of Branks.
III. Brank ·vi To Prance; to Caper.
IV. Brank ·vi To hold up and toss the head;
— applied to horses as spurning the bit.
buck-wheat, called in some countries crap. Ess. Suff. and Norf. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose