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Vinony

Bren

proper noun

  1. type of submachine gun used by the British in WWI
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bɹɛn/

name

  1. A female given name, clipping of Brenda.
  2. A male given name, clipping of Brendan.

noun

Etymology: See Bren gun.

  1. Ellipsis of Bren gun.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English brennen, from Old Norse brenna, brinna, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to set on fire”). Cognate with German brennen, Swedish bränna. Doublet of burn; see there for more.

  1. To burn (to set ablaze).

    “And the greene grasse that groweth they shall bren, That even the wilde beast shall dy in starved den”