Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial. Also 5 brandyr, 6 brandire. [Variant of BRANDIRON.] A gridiron. See also BRANDISE, BRANDIRON, BRANDRETH.
c. 1450. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 626. Tripos, brondyre.
1587. in Wadley, Bristol Wills (1886), 251. My great pan and brandire and Pykes thervnto belonginge.
1708. Inv., in E. W. Dunbar, Soc. Life Moray, 212 (D.). A frying-pan, two branders.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xxiv. A couple of fowls … reeking from the gridiron or brander.
