A word in Auld Lang Syne

[upinaballoon]

I have the poem in a new book. I know quite a lot of what it means and I have looked up the meanings of several words e.g. stowp, gowans. However, I cannot translate
'But seas between us braid hae roar'd'

I can only find 'plait' for 'braid', which I already know, but isn't right here. Please help.

But seas between us ????? have roared.

Happy New Year. Ring out, wild bells.

Broad? So "broad seas have roared between us"?

So it's "Seas between us [something] have roared " ?

Braid means broad, wide, hae means have. Roar'd is also pronounced similar to braid

broad as in wide

Seems obvious to me tbh
But seas between us broad have roared - ie we were/are parted by many miles of ocean.

The verse is about friends who have been apart for some time. It suggests that they have been on different continents but are now reunited.

Thank you all. Strictly it's not pedantry but it was the best place I knew to ask.

Tbh if I'd looked later it might have dropped into place for me, but I didn't have loads of time and it made a nice opportunity on 31st December to say Happy New Year.

I imagine one of them had been to America for some time and was back home in Scotland.

Prompted me to look up 'Wherefore sing we at a-brayde'. Apparently from the word braid, though a different context and meaning. 'Immediately' or 'enthusiastically'. In your case, it seems a different pronunciation of 'broad' so different.