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† brewe Obs.
Also 6 brew, 7 brue.
[Etymology unknown.]
A fowl; ? a kind of snipe.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 143 Wodcok..resteratiff þey ar, & so is the brewe. c1475Noble Bk. Cookery (Napier 1882) 63 A Brewe sley him in the mouthe, as a curlewe. 1513Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 276 Vntache that brewe. 1605in Archæol. XIII. 341 These Foules bee nowe in seasone..Brue. |