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Synonyms for branding

Grammar : Verb
Spell : brand
Phonetic Transcription : brænd

Définition of branding

Origin :
  • Old English brand, brond "fire, flame; firebrand, piece of burning wood, torch," and (poetic) "sword," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (cf. Old Norse brandr, Old High German brant, Old Frisian brond "firebrand, blade of a sword," German brand "fire"), from root *bran-/*bren- (see burn (v.)). Meaning "identifying mark made by a hot iron" (1550s) broadened by 1827 to "a particular make of goods." Brand name is from 1922.
  • verb label negatively
Example sentences :
  • It did not take long—as Weary had said, it was very much like branding calves.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • Then there were the fenced-in pastures and the branding corrals.
  • Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • It was like beholding a dainty flower in the grime and brutality of the branding pen.
  • Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge
  • Branding in some instances appears to have been a mere farce.
  • Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
  • When these five things came together, it meant that somebody was branding.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • Herself she fashioned in the act of branding the state of the Rhodians.
  • Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius
  • That was a cattle country; they knew it for a branding iron.
  • Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden
  • When branding calves, suppose you have 400 cows and calves in the corral.
  • Extract from : « Ranching, Sport and Travel » by Thomas Carson
  • Gerrard was delighted to see him, and at once ceased his work of branding calves.
  • Extract from : « Tom Gerrard » by Louis Becke
  • Caught you rustling, caught you branding a calf just after you had shot the cow.
  • Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine

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