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▪ I. brooking, vbl. n.|ˈbrʊkɪŋ|
[f. brook v.]
†1. The capacity to take (food); assimilation, digestion. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 53 Brokynge of mete and drynke, retencio. 1626Bacon Sylva §61 The brooking of enormous quantity of meats..without Surfeit.
2. Endurance, bearing. (Now chiefly gerundial.)
1624Bacon New Atl. iii. (1635) 42 We have ships and boats for going under water, and brooking of seas. Mod. After brooking such an insult.
▪ II. † ˈbrooking, n. Obs.
[f. brook n. + -ing1.]
The maintenance or preservation of a brook.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. ii. 50 Sometimes this Compound Boundage implies a mutuall propertie or duety participable to the Conterminants, as bancking, balking, dyking..brooking, riuaging, foording. |