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"etymology_text": "Late Middle English brad, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr (“spike, shaft”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath (“sting, prick”), Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis (“bridle”), Czech brzda (“brake”). Doublet of prod.",
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{
"form": "brads",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bradding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bradded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bradded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "brad (third-person singular simple present brads, present participle bradding, simple past and past participle bradded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To attach using a brad."
],
"links": [
[
"attach",
"attach"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To attach using a brad."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting."
],
"links": [
[
"upset",
"upset"
],
[
"riveting",
"riveting"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɹad/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɹæd/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æd"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "brad"
}
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