The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brack \Brack\ (br[a^]k), n. [Cf.D. braak, Dan. br[ae]k, a breaking, Sw. & Icel. brak a crackling, creaking. Cf. Breach.] An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
Stain or brack in her sweet reputation.
--J. Fletcher.
Brack \Brack\, n. [D. brak, adj., salt; cf. LG. wrak refuse, G.
brack.]
Salt or brackish water. [Obs.]
--Drayton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"salty, briny," 1510s, from Dutch brak "brackish," probably from Middle Dutch brak "worthless," a word also used in commercial trade and which also made its way into early Modern English.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) salt or brackish water. Etymology 2
n. An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
Wikipedia
Brack may refer to
- Brackish water
- Brack (surname)
- Bräcke, a municipality in Sweden
- The Brack, a mountain in the Arrochar Alps on the south side of Glen Croe
- a variety of tea cake called Barmbrack.
Brack is an English and German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Antonio Brack Egg (born 1940), Peruvian agronomist engineer, an ecologist, and researcher
- Bill Brack (born 1935), former racing driver
- Brack Cornett (outlaw) (1841-1888), prominent outlaw born in Goliad County, Texas
- Gibby Brack (born 1908), Major League Baseball outfielder
- John Brack (1920–1999), Australian painter
- Kenny Bräck (born 1966), race car driver from Sweden
- Viktor Brack (1904–1948), Nazi physician and organiser of the Euthanasia Programme
- Walter Brack (1880–1919), German backstroke and breaststroke swimmer
- William Jackson Brack (1837–1901), first mayor of Orlando, Florida
Category:German-language surnames
Usage examples of "brack".
Lieutenant Brack, who stood beside him with a bundle of radio messages.
Lieutenant Brack, would, I have little doubt, have been very different.
Lieutenant Brack, please try and see that Germany gets down to business again as soon as possible and never involves herself in another war.
Lieutenant Brack bent over Major Hinrichsen attentively to see what he could do for the wounded man.
The steel colossus came shuddering up to Hinrichsen and Brack and stopped in front of them.
Lieutenant Brack politely, as was his way, keeping his promise to Asch to look after Hinrichsen.
He then put one or two incidental questions to Brack, merely as if he wanted to make conversation.
He had a man called Brack beside him, Frank Thomas Brack, son of old Charlie Brack.
One of them, a Lieutenant Brack, is particularly worth paying attention to.
Lieutenant Brack, whose sister is married to Colonel Thompson, by the way, has put in a strong word for him.
Hinrichsen, looking with interest at Lieutenant Brack, who was ready for the road.
He went with Brack into the staff building, and they made their way to the rooms to which the divisional signs pointed.
Thither went Lieutenant Brack to treat with their commander, who found his mood of sullen despondency lifting as the conversation with his visitor progressed.
Lieutenant Brack, in whose care you left me, gave me the warmest recommendation to the victors, and to some purpose too, for Lieutenant Brack turned out to be the brother-in-law of some high-up in the U.
Major Hinrichsen, commanded by Captain Wedelmann and executed by Lieutenants Asch and Brack, while Lance Corporals Kowalski and Stamm were responsible for organization.