brawner

noun

brawner

noun

Etymology From brawn (“boar”) + -er.

1

A boar killed for the table.

  • [A]nd it is now the universal opinion among all enlightened men, that the misery of the brawner would be very little diminished, if he could be made sensible that he was to be eaten up only by persons of the first fashion.1809, Sidney Smith, Edinburgh Review:

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