Obs. Also 9 brasch. [Cf. BRASH sb.1, also BRUSH v.2 and ME. brissen.] trans. (and absol.) To assault, attack; to breach (a wall or other defence). Also fig.
c. 1565. R. Lindsay, Cron. Scot. (1814), 309 (Jam.). His captanes … war all hanged when he had brasched and wone the hous.
1570–3. R. Bannatyne, Jrnl. (1806), 274 (Jam.). They suld have brashit the wall whair thair batter was made.
1629. Sir W. More, True Crucif., 195 (Jam.). Whose breast did beare, brash’t with displeasure’s dart, A bruised spirit and a broken heart.
1638. Farley, Emblems. Death lies in ambush … And brasheth where our sconces weakest be.
