Bren
nounEtymology See Bren gun.
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Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of Bren gun.
bren
verbalso spelled Bren/bɹɛn/
Etymology From Middle English brennen, from Old Norse brenna, brinna, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to set on fire”). Cognate with German brennen, Swedish bränna. Doublet of burn; see there for more.
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Obsolete To burn (to set ablaze).
- And the greene grasse that groweth they shall bren, That even the wilde beast shall dy in starved den1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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