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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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BRAE, n.2

1. An artificial bank of gravel and stone built across a river as a salmon trap (see quots.). The same word as Brae, n.1.Mry. 1733 Session Papers, Earl of Moray v. Duke of Gordon (8 July 1775) 8:
What they call a brae, on the river of Spey, is where the water is ebb, and where they can get a found for a dyke; and as the winter frosts and speats cut and pot these ebbs, they change the stance of their dyke to another ebb place of the river, which they call a brae; and when the new dyke is built, it is called a dyke or brae for the time.
Mry. 1777 Session Papers, Grant v. Duke of Gordon (11 July) 12:
As to braes being diversi generis from cruives, it is plainly otherwise: Both are dams across the water, but the cruives are strong, and the braes weak; and there the cruive dykes are not interrupted except where the hecks are, by which not one large fish can pass, except in a speat; and the cruive dykes are close at both ends, whereas the brae is open at one end.
Mry. 1734 Court of Session Papers in Duff v. Gordon:
Fishing by braes is not a lawful method of fishing.
Mry. 1781 Faculty Decisions VIII. 91:
That the Duke of Gordon should be obliged to remove all dikes, braes, and other bulwarks impeding the navigation.

2. Applied to a pool on the Spey where the above device was employed.Abd.16 1937:
About a mile above the Bridge of Fochabers there is a pool known to salmon fishers as The Brae. It is in a flat area and far removed from any “brae” in the ordinary sense of the word. . . . That was the part of the river concerned in the lawsuit.

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