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▪ I. brob|brɒb|
[prob. related to North dial. ‘brob to prick with a bodkin’ (Grose): cf. brad, brod, brog, etc.]
‘A peculiar spike, driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping’ (Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881).
1874in Knight Amer. Mech. Dict.
▪ II. † brob, v. Eng. regional (north. and midl.). Obs.
[Origin uncertain. Apparently related to, and perhaps a variant of, prop v.3]
intr. To prick, pierce, or poke. Cf. prop v.3
1748Articles for High Peak Hundred in W. Hardy Miner's Guide 22 If any Miner within the King's Field, do brob or make any Holes for the finding of any Vein or Rake. 1790F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (Suppl.) Brob.., to prick with a bodkin. North. a1796S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) 91 Brob, to prick; ‘The cow with the tip of her horn brob'd the man's eye out.’ 1866R. Hallam Wadsley Jack vi. 25, I can't tell yo' t' number o' red jackets' at wor' i' my bed, wi' bayonets fix'd, an' which brobb'd me moast unmarcifully. |