What is "brassies"

Usage examples of "brassies".

Half a dozen brassies-no, these were men and women of the human village-were converging on the tree, bearing wicked-looking axes.

Otherwise they could have attacked him and perhaps put him in difficulty, in the same way the brassies were doing in the gourd.

At this point his eye fell on the gourd-and even from a distance his consciousness was drawn into the peephole, and he was back among the brassies.

Half a dozen brassies—no, these were men andwomen of the human village—were converging on the tree,bearing wicked-looking axes.

Otherwise they couldhave attacked him and perhaps put him in difficulty, inthe same way the brassies were doing in the gourd.

At this point his eye fell on the gourd—andeven from a distance his consciousness was drawn into thepeephole, and he was back among the brassies.

Smash had said something about a pasture where they grazed, somewhere beyond a haunted house and a city of moving buildings where the brassies lived.

Did one of them lead to the haunted house, or the brassies, or the night mares?

No doubt this was where the brassies harvested some of the wire for their constructions.