Obs. [Phonetic variant of BRANLE v.; cf. BRANGLE v.1, also BRANDLE, BRANSLE, BRANTLE.]

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  1.  A shake, an impulse, a setting in motion: = F. branle, BRANLE, BRANSLE.

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1652.  Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 266. Forced, for want of a convenient agent to give them the due brangle, to lye immobile. Ibid. (1653), Rabelais, II. xv. (1737), II. 123. Gave it the brangle, hurling it with all their force down the hill.

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  2.  A kind of dance; = F. branle, BRANLE, BRANSLE, BRANTLE. (Only Sc.)

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XIII. ix. 107. Vpstart Troianis, and syne Italianis, And gan do dowbill brangillis.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 66. It vas ane celest recreation to behald thei … braulis and branglis … vitht mony vthir lycht dancis.

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