Brad Definition

brăd

brad, brads

noun

A thin wire nail of uniform thickness with a small head that is sometimes off-center.

Webster's New World

(US, elementary school usage, particularly kindergarten and primary grades) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.

Wiktionary

verb

To fasten with brads.

Webster's New World

pronoun

A diminutive of the male given names Bradley, Bradly, or Bradford.

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Other Word Forms of Brad

Noun

Singular:

brad

Plural:

brads

Origin of Brad

Late Middle English, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr ‘spike, shaft’, from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath ‘sting, prick’, Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis ‘bridle’, Czech brzda ‘brake’).

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old Norse broddr spike

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition