(cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
verb
(cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
To cover a horse in defensive armor.
brad
brad
noun
(US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
verb
(transitive) To attach using a brad.
(transitive) To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.
darb
darb
noun
(Australia, slang) A cigarette.
(slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
drab
drab
adj
(by extension) Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting.
Of the colour of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
noun
(LGBT, slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man).
(by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
(dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
(dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
A small amount, especially of money.
Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
The colour of this fabric.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
