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† proche, v. Obs.
[app. either a palatalized form akin to proke v., or due to assimilation of proke and broche, broach v. in a similar sense.]
trans. and intr. To prick, pierce, spur.
(The first quot. is obscure, and the word may be different.)
a1400–50Alexander 1926 For now he proches [Dublin MS. prokes] for pride & propurly he wedis, For-þi him bose to be bett as a barne fallis. 1515Scot. Field 325 in Percy Folio I. 228 They proched vs with speares & put many over that they blood out brast at there broken harnish. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclxiii. 591 The englysshe⁓men and gascoyns proched their horses with their spurres. |