BRUNTS

Noun

brunts

plural of brunt

Proper noun

Brunts

plural of Brunt

Source: Wiktionary


BRUNT

Brunt, n. Etym: [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t.]

1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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