broddern.
/ˈbrɒdə/, U.S. /ˈbrɑdər/, Scottish English /ˈbrɔdər/ Scottish and northern.
One who brods or uses a brod; rug-brodder (see quot. 1921).
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1877 Covenant Times 200 This torture consisted in the free use of the ‘brodder's’ needles.
1885 W. Ross Aberdour & Inchcolme xi. 328 ‘Who,’ you say, ‘was the Brodder?’..His office was to settle the question, whether those accused of being witches were so or not..by searching for the ‘devil's mark’ on their bodies, by ‘brodding’ or pricking it with a sharp needle.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §398 Rug brodder (Yorks. term)..makes rugs, by hand, on a canvas ground, by piercing canvas with an awl and inserting cloth cuttings.
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