(Britain) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
(Ireland, slang, used in the vocative) A buffoon or imbecile.
(now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
brawls
brawls
noun
plural of brawl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brawl
brawns
brawns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brawn
brewis
brewis
noun
(obsolete or dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
brewst
browis
browis
noun
(obsolete or dialectal) brewis
browns
browns
noun
plural of brown
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brown
browse
browse
noun
(countable) That which one browses through; something to read.
(uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
(uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
(intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
(transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.