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▪ I. brog, n. dial.|brɒg|
[Of uncertain origin. (Sc. also brɔg, brog) the Gaelic brog ‘awl’, must, according to Thurneysen, be an adopted word.]
1. A pricking or boring instrument: the common name in Scotland of a bradawl; also, an awl.
1808in Jamieson. 1861Ramsay Remin. Ser. ii. 59 But oh, please tak a brog, and prod him weel, and let the wind out o' him.
2. A prick with a bradawl, etc.
1808in Jamieson.
3. A short stick, esp. one to stick in the ground; e.g. those stuck in the ‘Sands’ of North Lancashire, to indicate the crossing.
1781J. Hutton Tour Caves (E.D.S.) Brogs, small sticks. 1870Barber Forness Folk 35 in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) We'd gitten by t' last brog an' off t' sand. 1875Lanc. Gloss., Brog, a branch, a bough, a broken branch.
▪ II. brog, v. dial.|brɒg|
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To prick, prod; to push an awl through.
a1774Fergusson Election Poems (1845) 42 Wi a muckle elshin lang He brogit Maggie's hurdies. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. v, ‘D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather?’ 1820― Monast. iii, ‘The stony-hearted villains were brogging them on wi' their lances!’
2. To insert pointed sticks into; see quot. dial.
1875Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) 58 After obtaining a safe ford, the guides..mark out the track by inserting branches of trees. This is called ‘broggin' t' channel’.
3. intr. To broggle for eels, to sniggle. dial.
1678Littleton Lat. Dict., To broge for Eels. 1706Phillips, Brogue or Broggle, to fish for Eels, after a particular manner, by troubling the Water. c1750J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) Wks. Gloss. s.v. Brog, Fishing for eels, called brogging..by putting the hook and worm on a small stick, and thrusting it into holes where the eels lye.
Hence brogged staff (Sc.): a pointed or spiked staff as a weapon of war.
1429Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §121 With sworde and buckler, and a gude axe, or else a brogged staffe. a1550Peebles to Play 9 He stert till ane broggit staff, Winchand as he were wood. |