brancardn.
/ˈbraŋkəd/ A horse-litter.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter > carried on horses or mules > for sick or wounded
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1592 H. Unton Corr. (1847) 301 His hurt will not suffer him to ryde but in a brancorde.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. xi. 666 An Image of wood, like to a man, set vpon an Azure-coloured stoole in a brankard or litter.
1754 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 23 June (1967) III. 52 My Bed was plac'd on a Brancard.
1879 H. S. Edwards Russians I. 310 Had I seen the brancard in which Charles XII. was carried at the battle of Pultawa?
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n.1592- triple rhythm
- triple rime
- triple salt
- triple screw
- triple sec
- triple spacing
- triple star
- triple suspension
- triple tail
- triple tertian
- triple therapy
- triple threat
- triple time
- triple tonguing
- triple tree
- triple unite
- triple vaccine
- triple witching
- triple witching hour
- triple-action
- true to type
- true tongue
- true turquoise
- true vocal fold
- true word