† braye Obs.
Also 6 brey, 6–7 braie.
[a. F. braie = med.L. braca dike, embankment: of unknown origin.]
A military outwork; a mound or bank defended by palisades and watchtowers. false braye (ad. Fr. fausse braie): an advanced parapet surrounding the main rampart.
| 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII, i §1 To make Bulwerkes, Brayes, Walles, Diches, and al other fortificacions. 1546 St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 205 He knowith of no newe fortification..saving only a newe braye about their fort. 1575 Laneham Let. (1871) 2 A fayre Park on the one side, which by the Braiz is linked too the castl on the South. 1577 Holinshed Chron. II. 857 The king that was walking aloft on the braies of the wals. 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. 122 A Brey and Cortaine without was battered by the forts. 1645 Symonds in United Serv. Mag. (1842) ii. 467 There is..a pallizado above the false bray. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais iii. Prol., Contrived platforms, barricadoed the false brayes. |