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▪ I. brod, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|brɒd|
Also 3 brodd, 5 brode. See also brad.
[ME., app. a. ON. brodd-r spike, shaft, spike on a plant, = OE. brord spike, point, spire, OHG. brort edge, margin (cf. braird, brerd), Goth. *brozds:—OTeut. *brozdo-z. There was a cognate OCeltic brott-, whence OIr. brot sting, prick, mod.Ir. and Gael. brod, which may be the source of some of the senses. Almost exclusively northern, and mainly Scotch. Cf. prod.]
†1. A shoot or sprout. rare. [cf. braird.]
c1200Ormin 10772 Nazaræþ bitacneþþ uss Onn Ennglissh brodd & blome. [Cf. Heb. nētser shoot.]
2. A goad, prick, pointed instrument.
c1375? Barbour St. Paulus 543 Saule, Saule..it is..hard to þe A-gane þe brod þe for to prese. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. xiv. 70 Gyve a man wald in thame thryst A scharpe brode. 1483Cath. Angl. 44 A Brod, aculeus, stimulus, stiga. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John x. 75 Roddes, axes, broddes to pricke. 1661Bp. Cosin Corr. (Surtees) II. 311 For brod [note, or spit] paper at the Stationer's for the cooke. 1721Kelly Sc. Prov. 168 (Jam.) He was never a good aver, that flung at the brod.
b. fig. An incentive, stimulus, motive.
c1375? Barbour St. Agnes 370 Þe wikit geste Fandit hyme..Vith þe brodis of lichery. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. II. 122 Ire and lust, quhilkis ar two maist sorrowful broddis amang wemen.
3. A prick from a goad; a prod.
1549Compl. Scot. iii. 28 Ane ox that repungnis the brod of his hird, he gettis doubil broddis.
†4. A prickle or thorn. Obs. rare.
1549Compl. Scot. xvii. 148 The palme tre hes schearp broddis and pikis.
5. a. A round-headed nail made by blacksmiths. b. An instrument for cutting up thistles. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss.
▪ II. brod, n.2
A Scotch |brɔd| variant of board (see senses 1–4). Also, an escutcheon (obs.).
1643Acts Ass. 171 (Jam.) Abuses in hinging of pensils and brods, affixing of honours and arms,—hath crept in. 1861Ramsay Remin. Ser. ii. 26 As he went round with the ladle, he used to remind such members of the congregation as seemed backward in their duty, by giving them a poke with the ‘brod’.
▪ III. brod, v. Obs. exc. dial.
[f. brod n.1]
†1. intr. To shoot, sprout. Obs.
c1200Ormin 10769 To broddenn & to blomenn.
2. trans. To goad, prod, urge with pricks. north. dial. Also fig.
c1450Henryson Mor. Fabl. 73 The caller..broded them ful sair. 1483Cath. Angl. 44 To Brod, stimulare. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 28 The stang of conscience broddit him so soir. a1568Wife of Auchterm., And brodit his buttock. 1566Drant Horace Sat. v, A tyraunte forces the, and broaddes the forwarde still. 1789R. Fergusson Poems II. 82 (Jam.) His words they brodit like a wumil, Frae ear to ear. 1877Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Brod, to prick, to poke; to cut up thistles.
▪ IV. brod(e
obs. f. broad, brood. |