An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Su. G. brokug, brokig, party-coloured; Ir. breach, speckled; Gael. brucach, speckled in the face.

BROCKLIE, adj. Brittle.
V. [Brukyl].

BROD, s. A board, any flat piece of wood, a lid, S. A. Bor. breid, a shelf or board, Ray.

Isl. broth, A. S. braed, bred, id.

To BROD, v. a.
1. To prick, to job; to spur, S.
Douglas. Complaynt S.
2. To pierce, used metaph., S.
Ferguson.
3. To incite, to stimulate; applied to the mind.
Douglas.

Su. G. brodd, cuspis, aculeus; Isl. brodd, the point of an arrow; sometimes the arrow itself, a javelin, any pointed piece of iron or steel; brydd-a, pungere; Ir. Gael. brod-am, to spur, to stimulate.

Brod, Brode, s.
1. A sharp-pointed instrument; as the goad used to drive oxen forward, S.
Wyntown.
2. A stroke with a sharp-pointed instrument, S.
Complaynt S.
3. An incitement, instigation.
Douglas.

Broddit Staff, "A staff with a sharp point at the extremity," Gl. Sibb. Also called a pike-staff, S. This is the same with broggit-staff.

V. [Brog].

BRODYRE, BRODIR, s. A brother; pl. bredir, bredyre.
Wyntown.