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Brignal Banks-. — Brignal, so called, in all probability from the 

 number of Iriggen, or bridges, which at the time of its receiving 

 that appellation occurred within the little extent which it em- 

 braces, since within the space of three miles in extent, and 

 much less in superficial measure, the parish of Brignal touches 

 upon the Greta, the Tutta, and the Tees, which required as 

 many bridges to cross them. Whitaker's Hist., vol. i., p. 293. 



" 0, Brignal banks are wild and fair, 

 And Greta's woods are gi-een. 

 And you may gather garlands there, 

 Would grace a summer queen." 



Rokeby, Cant, in., 16. 



Beoats. 



. Icel. hreidr, broad, wide. " Suio-Goth. hred, latus." Ihre. 

 A.-S. hrwdan, gehrwden, to make broad, spread ; Iryten, wide, 

 broad, spacious; hrdd, broad, large, vast. Dan. and ^'w:lred. 

 Ger. Ireit. Dut. and Fl. Ireed. Scot, hraid. Lat. latus (ex Gr. 

 TvXaTvs). It. largo. Sp. ancho. Port, lay'go. Fr. large. Wei. 

 llydj lied., breadth ; llydan, broad, wide. Gael, lead, farsuinneachd, 

 breadth ; farsuinn, capacious, wide. Ir. lead, farsneachd, breadth, 

 width ; farming, wide. Manx. Head, feaynid, breadth ; Head, 

 feayn, broad. 



^^ Broad, hoard, Irid, bird, from A.-S. hrcedan, dilatare, propa- 

 lare, dispalare, ampliare." H. Tooke. 



" Broad, a large flooded fen." Halliwell. 



In Norfolk are numerous and large shallow lakes and water 

 ways, locally called broads or meres, in contradistinction to nar- 

 row waters or rivers. 



'' Broad, a lake formed by the expansion of a river in a flat 

 country, as Breydon Broad, between Norwich and Yarmouth, 

 and several others in that part of the county of Norfolk; Oulton 

 Broad, &c., in the hundred of Lothingland, in Suffolk." Yocab. 

 East Anglia. Forby. 



The word occurs only in the Northern languages, Scandina- 

 vian, A.-S., German, and English. 



