braak, verb transitive
- Forms:
- Also brak.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch braken to plough land and leave it unsown.
To plough or turn over (fallow land).
1937 Handbk for Farmers (Dept of Agric. & Forestry) 701The crop that comes up serves for grazing purposes until August-September, when the soil is braaked deep.
1970 D.M. McMaster Informant, Cathcart, Eastern CapeTo brak over a land is to plough it roughly for the first time after the crop has been reaped...The pronunciation is ‘brok’ to rhyme with ‘lock’.
To plough or turn over (fallow land).
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