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BRERE, sb. a briar.
BREWERS, sb. pl. the brim of a hat. H.
BRIĀNER, sb. the wild bryony. Gk. βρυώνη. The a is long.
BRICKLE, adj. brittle. M.E., brokel, bruchel.
BRIDGE, v. to abate.
- 'He wouldn't bridge sixpence.'
BRIDLESTYE or BRIDLESTYLE, sb. a narrow road for horses and not for carriages.
BRIERLEY FURLONG, a field at Hazelbarrow, in Norton parish.
- This is evidence of the existence of the common field system, a furlong being a group of strips or seliones in one of the common or open fields.
- 'The Briery field lying next the hagg.'—Harrison.
BRIG, sb. a bridge.
BRIGHT.
- 'A close of meadow and arrable called Bright with a cottage in it lying between Rivelin firth, &c.'—Harrison. He mentions 'the Bright house carr lying next Neepsends lane.'
BRIGHTSIDE, a suburb of Sheffield.
- Hunter (Hallamshire, p. 226) gives as the earliest (1328) form of the word known to him Brekesherth. In 1565 it is called Brykehurst. John Brekesherd occurs in 15 Henry VI. Another spelling (temp. Eliz.) is Brixard. Hunter thinks that Grykesherth in the 'membra castri de Sheffield' is a mistake for Brykesherth. There was a bridge at Brightside in 1655 (ibid.). Harrison, in his Description of England (Holinshed, ed. 1577, fo. 72b), writing of the course of the river Don, says, 'Thence it proceedeth to Westford bridg, Bricksie bridg, and south west of Tinsley receyueth the Cowley streame, that runneth by Ecclefeld.' If Brekesherth be really an old spelling of the place now known as Brightside, then it is M. E. brêche, new ground (Stratmann), and eorde, earth. See BREAKES, above, and OLD EARTH, below. In Staveley a place is called 'the Brecks,' and 'the Brecks' is between Rotherham and Wiekersley. Brichissherd appears to be the old spelling of Brightside in a deed dated before 1181.—Eastwood's Ecclesfield, p. 58. Brigthwait occurs in a document affecting lands in Ecclesfield in II Edward III. It appears to be the place now called Butterthwaite. In the Poll Tax Returns for Handsworth, near Sheffield, 1379, is 'Henricus Breyksarth,' p. 45. On the same page is 'Johannes Brixard.' Brightsydhoulmes in 1624.
BRIGS, sb.pl. bars upon which a brewing sieve is put, and through which the liquor was siled.
BRIM, adj. accensus libidine.
