Obs. [App. a shortened form of BRACKEN.] = BRACKEN1

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1482.  Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 40. A full depe valeye … set with bocis and brackys on euery syde hangyng owte.

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1627.  Drayton, Agincourt, 182. They fed on Fearne & brack.

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1675.  Evelyn, Terra (1776), 36. Vegetables abounding in fixed Salts … as Pease-haulm, Bracks.

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