Crossword clues for brant
brant
- Small wild goose
- Warrior Chief of the Mohawk Nation
- Small, dark goose
- Small dark goose
- Molly___ (Seen on 1986's cent stamp)
- Mohawk patriot Mary
- Mohawk leader Joseph
- Migratory black-necked goose
- Goose with a black neck
- Dark goose
- Chief Joseph ____ ( Leader of Mohawks in eastern Canada )
- Certain goose
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brand goose \Brand" goose`\ [Prob. fr. 1st brand + goose: cf. Sw. brandg[*a]s. Cf. Brant.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of wild goose ( Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Any of several wild goose, of the genus ''Branta'', that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, ''Branta bernicla''. Etymology 2
a. 1 (context dialectal English) steep, precipitous. 2 (context Scotland English) smooth; unwrinkled alt. 1 (context dialectal English) steep, precipitous. 2 (context Scotland English) smooth; unwrinkled
WordNet
n. small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward [syn: brant goose, brent, brent goose]
[also: brants (pl)]
Wikipedia
Brant may refer to:
Brant is a provincial electoral district in southwestern, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
It was created in 1999 from all of Brantford and part of Brant—Haldimand.
When the riding was created, it included the city of Brantford, the town of Paris plus the townships of Brantford and South Dumfries.
In 2007, the boundaries were altered to include all of Brant County, plus that part of the Indian Reserves of Six Nations 40 and New Credit 40A located in Haldimand County.
The riding also existed from 1926 to 1975; It was known as Brant County until 1934.
Brant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Aaron Brant (1984–), American football player
- Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880–1970), Brazilian writer
- Antony Thomas Brant (1983–), English pop singer
- Beth Brant, Canadian Mohawk writer
- David Brant, former NCIS investigator
- Everett H. Brant (1885–1954), North Dakota Republican politician
- Henry Brant (1913–2008), Canadian-born composer, long in U.S.
- Isabella Brant (1591–1626), first wife of Peter Paul Rubens
- John Brant (Mohawk chief) (1794-1832), Mohawk chief, son of Joseph Brant
- Jon Brant (1954–), American bass player
- Joseph Brant (c. 1743–1807), Mohawk leader
- Irving Brant (1885-1976), biographer of James Madison, environmentalist
- Marshall Brant (1955–), former American Major League baseball player
- Molly Brant (Mary) (c. 1736–1796), Mohawk leader
- Mike Brant (1947–1975), Israeli pop star
- Monica Brant (1970–), American bodybuilder
- Peter M. Brant (1947–), American art collector and film producer
- Scott Brant (1983–), Zimbabwean cricketer
- Scott Brant (speedway rider) (1969–), American professional speedway racer
- Sebastian Brant (1457–1521), German humanist and satirist
- Shawn Brant, Mohawk insurgent
- Tim Brant (1949–), American sportscaster
Fictional characters:
- Betty Brant, Spider-Man character
Usage examples of "brant".
Only once did Brant look back at the crouching monster, whose agelong vigil was now drawing to its close.
He and Rick had become closer than brothers, sharing fun and adventure, and the Brants treated him exactly as they treated Rick and Barby.
The Brants agreed immediately, and the Millers, who were offshore in the Coast Guard vessel, moved into the big Brant house that same night.
By the time the Camerons, Millers, Winstons, and Brants gathered in the library, Mysto had slept for nearly six hours.
They felt, too, a sense of exultation over Brant, Sangerachte, Hiokatoo, the Butlers, the Johnsons, Wyatt, and all the crew that had committed such terrible devastation in the Wyoming Valley and elsewhere.
We saw Brant, Timmendiquas, the Butlers, and Wyatt enter the house for a conference.
They had hoped to go far into the Iroquois country, to break the power of the Six Nations, to hunt down the Butlers and the Johnsons and Brant himself, but they could not wholly blame their commander.
The White Lightning of the Wyandots and the Joseph Brant of the Mohawks stood for a space side by side, gazing out of the window, taking a last look at the great Seneca Castle.
Rick Brant looked up from the workbench in his second floor bedroom and watched the spray shoot high, to be caught by the wind and carried almost to his window.
This problem, an urgent matter of anti-submarine warfare, had taken big Hobart Zircon and little Julius Weiss, both of whom had rooms on the third floor of the big Brant house, to sea for many weeks with a Navy task force.
Barbara Brant, with Jan Miller, had borrowed the car he and Scotty owned jointly and they were visiting friends in Whiteside, a usual Saturday activity when nothing exciting was happening on the island.
Originally, Scotty had rescued Rick from what might have been a bad beating, and was hired by Hartson Brant as a guard.
Barbara Brant, an equally attractive blonde, began talking the moment he stepped to the pier.
We planned to send invitations to our opening on Thanksgiving Eve for both the Brant and Miller families.
Hartson Brant followed, and went through door one, which had accepted Dr.