A gag for scolds. (Dutch, prang, a fetter; German, pranger, Gaelic, brancas, a kind of pillory.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.