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BRATTICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brattice mean?
• BRATTICE (noun)
The noun BRATTICE has 1 sense:
1. a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine
Familiarity information: BRATTICE used as a noun is very rare.
• BRATTICE (verb)
The verb BRATTICE has 1 sense:
1. supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines
Familiarity information: BRATTICE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("brattice" is a kind of...):
divider; partition (a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another))
Sense 1
Meaning:
Supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "brattice" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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