adv. Obs. In 3 bredlinge, 6 Sc. braid-, breadlingis, 7 bradelings. [f. BROAD a. + -LING(S.] Broadwise, with the broad or flat side; extended, flat; broadly.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 61. He wile smite bredlinge mid swuerde and brisen, oðer mid egge and cleuen.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 119. Wes borne than braidlingis on his bak.
a. 1605. Bannatyne, Jrnl., 173 (Jam.). He straik ane of them breadlingis with his sword.
1606. Birnie, Kirk-Burial (1833), 20. It brake not in bradelings, but as it were by degrees.
a. 1701. Sedley, Pindar. Ode, Wks. (1766), 16. So have I seen the warbling lark … The narrow compass of a cage forget, And broadling o’er a turf in silent pleasure sit.
