LekhoriLekhoriInflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly.
Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle.
Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
To become brittle.
The project is based on a similar project, the Class project, which was started by the University of Cornell several years ago under the leadership of Stuart Lynn to preserve brittling old books.
A surname.
From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.
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To gut.
Not being versed in the terms of English venery, he asked Abbot Ulfketyl what brittling of a deer might mean; and being informed that it was that operation on the carcass of a stag which his countrymen called eventrer, and Highland gillies now “gralloching”[.]