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branding
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Wikipedia
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Branding may refer to: Making a mark by charring Wood branding , permanently marking, by way of heat, wood (also: plastic, cork, leather, etc.) Livestock branding , the marking of animals to indicate ownership Human branding , as body modification or punishment ...
Wiktionary
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n. process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal vb. (present participle of brand English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES branding iron EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Advertisers also point out the hypocrisy of barring sponsored programmes when sports coverage is awash with branding . ▪ As you say, the hoof branding will not be visible when conditions ...
WordNet
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n. the act of stigmatizing [syn: stigmatization , stigmatisation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brand \Brand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Branded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Branding .]. To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict). To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any ...
Usage examples of branding.
Her creamy mounds were squished against the table, but soon they would be branding his chest.
A moment later it stopped and his hot fingers curled around her ankles, branding her.
The month of September was usually the beginning of the branding season at Las Palomas.
In conducting this work, Uncle Lance was the leader, and with the white element already enumerated, there were twelve to fifteen vaqueros included in the branding outfit.
Just wait until the branding was over and the fiestas of the Christmas season were on, and watch him dog her every step until he received her signal of surrender.
Dan Happersett was dispatched with the second bunch for branding, when we swung north to Mr.
As a five-year-old, and naked as the day he was born, had he not ridden a colt at branding time, twice around the big corral without being thrown?
Only the year before at branding, when an infuriated bull had driven every vaquero out of the corrals, did not Enrique mount his horse, and, after baiting the bull out into the open, play with him like a kitten with a mouse?
When the branding proper was concluded, our tally showed nearly fifty-one hundred calves branded that season, indicating about twenty thousand cattle in the Las Palomas brand.
The cattle finished, we turned our attention to the branding of the horse stock.
When a similar question was asked me, I reluctantly admitted that the Las Palomas crop was quite a disappointment this year, only branding sixty-five hundred calves, but that our mule and horse colts ran nearly a thousand head without equals in the Nueces valley.
We had a branding chute on the ranch for grown cattle, and the following morning the herd was corralled and the road-branding commenced.
The day our branding was finished, the two returned near midnight, reported the San Miguel cattle accepted and due the next evening at Las Palomas.
There were some five or six owners, and Scales must catch the brands as they were freed from the branding chute.
Before the branding of this hunch was finished, Wilson, from Ramirena, rode into the ranch and announced his cattle within five miles of Las Palomas.