braize

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹeɪz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophone: braise

Etymology 1

Pagrus pagrus

Wikispecies Unknown. Perhaps akin to English barse (“bass, perch”) and English bream.

Noun

braize (plural braizes)

1. A European marine fish, Pagrus pagrus, allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.

Synonyms

• braise, brazier

Etymology 2

Noun

braize (plural braizes)

1. Dated form of braise. (meat cooked by braising)
2. Alternative spelling of braze (small charcoal for melting ore)
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 216:

     The fuel was wood, either alone or mixed with peat, or pure peat - as in the north of Lancashire - or mineral coal, but most frequently it was small charcoal, called braise or braize.

Verb

braize (third-person singular simple present braizes, present participle braizing, simple past and past participle braized)

1. Dated form of braise.

   braizing meat

Anagrams

• zeriba