brattice

1. 1.

   a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine

   Broaderpartition

1. 1.

   supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines

   Broadersupply

Other forms of brattice

plural

brattices·

past tense

bratticed·

present participle

bratticing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brattice

What does brattice mean?

brattice means "a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brattice?

brattice has 2 syllables: brat-tice. The stress falls on "brat".

Is brattice a common word?

brattice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.