Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To prick with an awl or other sharp-pointed instrument; push or thrust, as an instrument: as, to
brog leather. - To catch (eels) by means of small sticks called
brogs . - noun A trick.
- noun A pointed instrument, as a shoemakers' awl; a joiners' awl.
- noun A small stick used in catching eels.
- noun A jab with a sharp instrument.
- noun A variant of
brogue . - noun A swampy or bushy place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.
- transitive verb Scot. & Prov. To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle.
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Examples
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I am forward to look more reading information brog.
BSNYC Quiz-pocalypse Now! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Shaun replied under the sheltar of his brog-uish, vigorously rubbing his magic lantern to a glow of full — consciousness.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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A long-legged lad, of about thirteen, with a brog or awl was teasing out the end of a flambeau in preparation to light it for some purpose not to be guessed at, and a servant lass, pock-marked, with one eye on the pot and the other up the lum, as we say of a glee or cast, made a storm of lamentation, crying in
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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BROGUE, (1) A rough shoe of raw leather (from the Gael. _brog_, a shoe) worn in the wilder parts of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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There were speeches and champagne, and the Dane-brog was hoisted amid hurrahs of our compatriots.
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"Stamp -- stamp," went the pompous little man; and "brog -- brog," went his stick in the soft earth.
Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home George Manville Fenn 1870
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"When that nail leaves her brog, it will be for your heart."
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864
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"When that nail leaves her brog, it will be for your heart."
What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864
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I perceive is still a kind of _Lod-brog_ (Loaded-breeks) in more senses than one; and derives, little conscious of it, many of his excellences from the old Sea-kings and Saxon Pirates themselves; and how many Blakes and Nelsons since have contributed to Ben!
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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A wee bit clamsheuchar wi 'my Lochaper axe, or a brog wi' my skean-dhu, will make them quate aneuch, my letty.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837
qms commented on the word brog
When the boy first slogged in the bog
He stirred all the frogs quite agog.
‘Twas a danger mistook:
The boy sought the brook
To hunt only eels with his brog.
May 14, 2019