- Brattishing
- Brattishing Brat"tish*ing, n.
1. See {Brattice}, n.
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2. (Arch.) Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Brattishing
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