brustlien
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Verb edit
brustlien
- To crackle or rustle
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- Right as a ship ayein the streme
He routeth with a ſlepy noiſe
And bruſtleth as a monkes froiſe- (please add an English translation of this quotation)