An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Breast-woddie, s. That part of the harness of a carriage-horse, which goes round the breast, S. B.
V. [Rig-Widdie].
Journal Lond.

BRECHAME, BRECHEM, s. The collar of a working-horse, S.
V. [Haims].
Bannatyne Poems.

Baurghwan is used in the same sense, A. Bor. Gael. Ir. braigh, the neck; whence braighaidain, a collar. The last syllable has more resemblance of Teut. hamme, a collar.

BREDDIT, part. pa. Apparently, wreathed.
Palice of Hon.

A. S. bred-an, Teut. breyd-en, to wreathe.

BREDE, WYNTER-BREDE, s. Provisions for winter.
Douglas.

This may be merely bread. But Isl. braad is rendered, praeda, esca, carnivori animalis.

BREDIR, s. pl. Brethren.
V. [Brodir].

BREDIS.

In Bredis.
V. [Abreid].
Houlate.