LekhoriLekhoriAny of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?
steep, precipitous.
Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
smooth; unwrinkled
Your bonnie brow was brent.
A surname.
A place in the United States:
A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
From New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).
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