brant

noun

1. (Canada, US)Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.

   “I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?”

adj

1. (dialectal)steep, precipitous.

   “Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.”

2. (Scotland)smooth; unwrinkled

   “Your bonnie brow was brent.”

name

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
3. A place in the United States:
4. A place in the United States:
5. A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
6. A municipality in Ontario, Canada, named Brant County or the County of Brant.
7. A river, the River Brant in Lincolnshire, England, a tributary of the River Witham.