Library / English Dictionary

BRATTICE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("brattice" is a kind of...):

divider; partition (a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "brattice" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits