Also 6 brancorde, 7 brankard. [a. F. brancard a litter, f. branche BRANCH.] A horse-litter.
1592. Unton, Corr. (1847), 301. His hurt will not suffer him to ryde but in a brancorde.
1613. Purchas, Pilgr., VIII. xi. 795. An image of wood, like to a man, set vpon an azure-coloured stoole, in a brankard or litter.
1752. Lady M. W. Montague, Corr., lxiv. III. 125. My bed was placed on a brancard.
1879. H. S. Edwards, Russ. at Home, I. 310. Had I seen the brancard in which Charles XII. was carried at the battle of Pultawa…?
