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How to use branks in a sentence

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I am glad John Winthorp and John Carver did not bring cumbrous and cruel iron branks to America.
As punishment, the branks was locked about the women's heads to humiliate them and teach them their place.
In the Americas, the branks were a type of humiliation punishment, while in medieval Europe, they were used more as a torture device.
These branks and the stocks are examples of implements of corporal punishment used in early modern Glasgow.
Somewhere in my unconscious memory lies the image of the seventeenth century branks, or gossip's bridle.
Wayne Jones, who ended Welding's run last year, maintained his hopes of another good run with a 3-0 triumph against qualifier Ian Branks.
Wayne Jones, who beat Welding in last year's quarter-finals, sustained his hopes of another good run with a 3-0 triumph against qualifier Ian Branks.
On the morning of Friday, 23 March 1849, the blood-stained bodies of John Branks and his three children were discovered in their one-room rural house.
Examples from Classical Literature
A man and his wife were ordered to stand at the Kirk-style with the branks in their mouths.
At Oswestry are two branks, one belonging to the Corporation, and the other is in the store-room of the Workhouse.
The branks was a species of iron mask, with a gag so contrived as to enter the mouth and forcibly hold down the unruly member.
The horse had neither saddle nor bridle, but only a branks about its head.
Who has not heard of the Langholm witches, and the branks to subdue them?
The Session appoint jorgs and branks to be made for punishing flyters.
It belongs to a class of engines far more formidable than branks.
They'll need to stand on a baikie that put the branks on him.
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