Branding
['brændɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brand
Editor: Margie
Examples
- Branding in this way was used mostly by cattle raisers when large herds were grazed on the western plains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In a few terse phrases he told me his opinion of, and feeling towards, the actress: he judged her as a womannot an artist: it was a branding judgment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I saw the death of that one with the rare name in his face as though it were burned there with a branding iron. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Noreen