Obs. rare–1. [The original Latin document (printed in Riley’s Mon. Gildhallæ II. 118) has brannum; Riley also cites brenna from Gervase of Canterbury, apparently the freshwater bream; cf. branling, BRANDLING; also BARNE.] Some kind of fish.
1720. Stow’s Survey (ed. Strype, 1754), II. V. xxvi. 464/2. A better Bran, Sard, and Betule for 3d.
