1 brýna
1. d, [brún], to whet, sharpen, ‘bring to an edge’; b. ljá, kníf, sverð, to whet a scythe, knife, sword, Edda 48, Ísl. ii. 348, Fs. 62.
2 brýna
β. naut. to drag a boat or ship half a-shore, put her on the ‘edge’ of the sea-board; b. upp skipi, Nj. 19, Fs. 145, 147, Fms. viii. 333, v. 1.
3 brýna
2. metaph. to egg on, incite, Al. 33.
4 brýna
2. u, f. whetting; mowers call ‘brýna’ the amount of mowing done before the scythe wants whetting again.