braize

noun, verb — 4 senses

braize

noun

/bɹeɪz/

Etymology Unknown. Perhaps akin to English barse (“bass, perch”) and English bream.

1

A European marine fish, Pagrus pagrus, allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.

Synonyms: braise, brazier

braize

verb

1

Dated Dated form of braise.

braizing meat

braize

noun

1

Dated Dated form of braise (“meat cooked by braising”).

2

Alternative Alternative spelling of braze (small charcoal for melting ore)

The fuel was wood, either alone or mixed with peat, or pure peat - as in the north of Lancashire - or mineral coal, but most frequently it was small charcoal, called braise or braize.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 216:

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