"branks" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Origins: First recorded in Scotland in 1567.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "branks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "branks"
      },
      "expansion": "branks (plural branks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1836 July, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 98",
          "text": "Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, describes the branks used at Newcastle-under-Lyme, and at Walsall, in the reign of James II.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A punishment device, especially for scolding women, consisting of a cage to enclose the head, with a metal gag for the mouth; a scold's bridle."
      ],
      "id": "en-branks-en-noun-fLh3amPL",
      "links": [
        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ],
        [
          "cage",
          "cage"
        ],
        [
          "gag",
          "gag"
        ],
        [
          "scold's bridle",
          "scold's bridle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A punishment device, especially for scolding women, consisting of a cage to enclose the head, with a metal gag for the mouth; a scold's bridle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɹæŋks/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æŋks"
    }
  ],
  "word": "branks"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Origins: First recorded in Scotland in 1567.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "branks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "branks"
      },
      "expansion": "branks (plural branks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English indeclinable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Rhymes:English/æŋks",
        "Rhymes:English/æŋks/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1836 July, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 98",
          "text": "Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, describes the branks used at Newcastle-under-Lyme, and at Walsall, in the reign of James II.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A punishment device, especially for scolding women, consisting of a cage to enclose the head, with a metal gag for the mouth; a scold's bridle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ],
        [
          "cage",
          "cage"
        ],
        [
          "gag",
          "gag"
        ],
        [
          "scold's bridle",
          "scold's bridle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A punishment device, especially for scolding women, consisting of a cage to enclose the head, with a metal gag for the mouth; a scold's bridle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɹæŋks/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æŋks"
    }
  ],
  "word": "branks"
}