brunstane

Scots

Alternative forms

  • brumstane, brunsteen'
  • bruntstane (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English brunstan. See brimstone for more.

Noun

brunstane (uncountable)

  1. brimstone (sulfur)
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thrawn Janet:
      […] the auld, deid, desecrated corp o' the witch-wife […] lowed up like a brunstane spunk and fell in ashes to the grund […]
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References

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