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▪ I. † ˈbrockle, brokle, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 4 brokele, 5 brokyl(l, -ylle, -el, -il, 6 brokle, brocle.
[A parallel form to brickle, bruckle; prob. by later assimilation to brok-en.]
Easily broken, fragile; frail.
c1315Shoreham 3 Of brokele kende is that he deithe. c1325Metr. Hom. 154 Fleys es brokel als wax, and neys. c1430Hymns to Virg. (1867) 86 A brokil poot þat freisch is and gay. 1483Cath. Angl. 44 Brokylle, vbi brysille. 1509Fisher Wks. 92 A potte that is brocle. 1552Huloet, Bryttle, bryckle, or brokle. 1863Atkinson Provinc. Danby, Bruckle, brockle, easy to be broken, frail, brittle.
▪ II. † ˈbrockle, n. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 6 brokkell, brockell, 8 brackle.
[cf. prec., and brokaly.]
collect. Broken pieces, fragments; rubbish.
1552Huloet s.v. Throw, Throw out rubbel, as mortar, stone, and such lyke brockell of olde buyldynges, erudero. Ibid. s.v. Rubbysh, or brokkell of olde houses, or walles. 1710A. J. Eng. Portug. Dict., To carry away rubble or brackle of an old decayed house. |