brogn.
/brɒɡ/ dialect.
1. A pricking or boring instrument: the common name in Scotland of a bradawl; also, an awl.
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1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. 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.
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1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
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.
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1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 87/1 Brogs, small sticks.
1870 Barber Forness Folk 35 in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) We'd gitten by t' last brog an' off t' sand.
1875 Lanc. Gloss. Brog, a branch, a bough, a broken branch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
brogv.
/brɒɡ/ dialect.
1. transitive. To prick, prod; to push an awl through.
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 113 D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend leather?
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. iii. 116 The stony-hearted villains were brogging them on wi' their lances!
2. To insert pointed sticks into; see quot. 1875 dialect.
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1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 58 After obtaining a safe ford, the guides..mark out the track by inserting branches of trees. This is called ‘broggin' t' channel’.
3. intransitive. To broggle v. for eels, to sniggle. dialect.
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1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius To broge for Eels.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Brogue or Broggle, to fish for Eels, after a particular manner, by troubling the Water.
1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) (Gloss.) at Brog There are two Ways of fishing for Eels, call'd Brogging, one with a long Pole, Line, and Plummet, the other by putting the Hook and Worm on a small Stick, and thrusting it into Holes where the Eels lye.
Derivatives
brogged staff n. Scottish a pointed or spiked staff as a weapon of war.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > armed club
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1429 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §121 With sworde and buckler, and a gude axe, or else a brogged staffe.
a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 179 He stert till ane broggit stauf wincheand as he war woode.
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