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▪ I. breck
Forms: 3–5 brek, 4–5 brekke, 5 breke, 5–6 brecke, 3–7 breck.
[A parallel form of break n.1, or a direct derivation of brec- stem of break v.]
†1. A breach, blemish, failing. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 6344 He drou þam vp at first, Wit-vten ani brek or brist. c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 940 Swiche a fairenesse of a nekke..that boon nor brekke Nas ther non seen that mys satte. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle i. xv. (1859) 13, I that am in this brecke perylous. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 40 Saint Michel doth bid thee amend the marsh wal, the brecke and the crab hole. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xiii. 41 No breck was ever found in her veil, so spotlesse was her conversation. 1662― Worthies iii. 38 Monuments..remaining without breck or blemish to this day.
2. = break n.1 12. Also attrib.; Breckland, a name given to the region of brecks in Norfolk.
1787Marshall Rur. Econ. E. Norfolk, Breck..a large new-made inclosure. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 282/1 The naked brecks (or undulating downs) of Norfolk. 1840Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. I. iv. 360 The first damside breck meadow on the plan. 1863Morton Cycl. Agric. II, Breck (Norf., Suff.), a large field. In Northumb., etc., a portion of a field cultivated by itself. 1879Lubbock Fauna of Norfolk Introd. p. viii, On the ‘Breck’ district the lordly Bustard roamed. 1894Naturalists' Jrnl. Oct. 90 The ‘brecks’..are the upland heaths and huge fields of this district [sc. south-west Norfolk]. Ibid., We at length reach a typical breckland wild—Roudham Heath. 1897W. Rye Songs of Norfolk 124 Such cramped wild country, half rough breck land and half marsh. 1956O. Cook Breckland 59 Many of the Breckland cottages..have no gardens... This is typical of Breckland.
▪ II. breck
obs. pres. and pa. tense of break. |