Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of mead made of ale boiled with honey, seasoned with pepper, cloves, mace, cinnamon, nutmegs, and fermented with wort or yeast.
  • noun An obsolete form of bracket.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A liquor made of fermented ale and honey with spices.

Etymologies

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Old English braket, bragot, from Welsh bragawd, bragod, from brag malt.

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Examples

  • And these men are honourably served with mead and bragget, and are freely beloved by the daughters of the kings of the Island of Britain.

    The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3) Owen Morgan Edwards 1889

  • And these men are honourably served with mead and bragget, and are freely beloved by the daughters of the kings of the Island of Britain.

    The Mabinogion Anonymous 1853

  • And, what with one man’s fish and a dozen men’s poissons, sowing my wild plums to reap ripe plentihorns mead, lashings of erbole and hydromel and bragget, I’d come out with my magic fluke in close time, fair, free and frolicky, zooming tophole on the mart as a factor.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Honey that is nine times sweeter than the honey of the virgin swarm, without scum and bees, do I require to make bragget for the feast. "

    The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) Owen Morgan Edwards 1889

  • Honey that is nine times sweeter than the honey of the virgin swarm, without scum and bees, do I require to make bragget for the feast. "

    The Mabinogion Anonymous 1853

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  • bracket

    August 5, 2011

  • My dog drinks his brew without fail,

    Reviewing each batch with his tail.

    I know that he'll wag it

    For a big bowl of bragget.

    He does like his honey and ale.

    December 12, 2016