Obs. rare. Also braunk. [a. OF. branc (branc de l’espée sword-blade), taken by Diez as a variant of brant = BRAND, though, as the Pr. form is brenc, this appears doubtful.]
A brand, a sword. App. only in Caxton.
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XII. xii. He … bete hym with his branke of steel. Ibid. (c. 1489), Sonnes of Aymon, i. 28. Soo heued uppe the duke his branke of stele, and smote Lohier. Ibid., 81. His braunk of stele.
