branque

to be compared with the Piedmontese slang branci, "donkey" or with the Occitan branco or baranco or barranco (Frédéric Mistral, Le Trésor du Félibrige, t.I, 233), "laggard, lame person, lazybones" or also "rambler". Also to be compared with the Swiss Romand branko, "old horse, old mule" (Valais patois).