English Dictionary

bray

IPA（発音記号）

/bɹeɪ/

動詞

古語 他動詞 イギリス英語 ヨークシャー方言 広義

(transitive, archaic) To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar. / (transitive, Britain, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit (someone or something).

日本語の意味

（すり鉢と杵を用いて）粉砕する、潰す / （主にイギリス・ヨークシャー方言）何か・誰かを打つ

She brayed the herbs with a mortar and pestle until they released their aroma.

彼女は乳鉢と乳棒でハーブをすり潰し、香りが立つまで続けた。

意味（1）

(transitive, archaic) To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar.

Though thou ſhouldeſt bray a fool in a morter among wheate with a peſtell, yet will not his fooliſhneſſe depart from him.

意味（2）

(transitive, Britain, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit (someone or something).

If anything he brayed him all the harder – the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.

brays （ present singular third-person ）

braying （ participle present ）

brayed （ participle past ）

brayed （ past ）