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BROD, v. to pierce or poke.
- 'Brod that tooad.'
- Of a man in a crowded theatre it was said: 'He wur that brodded and thrussen at he wur fair sore.' To brod: stimulare.—Cath. Angl.
BRODDLE, v. to poke.
BRODDLER, sb. a toothed instrument for making holes of an irregular shape.
- A woman who kept school at Eckington used to prick or brod the children in the forehead with a sharp instrument which she called a broddler. She said she was driving sense into them.
BROKEN HOLME, a field in Bradfield. See DAKWATER and BROKOW.
- I am told that there is a Bracken Holm in Yorkshire.
BROKKEN, broken. Also insolvent.
BROKOW.
- There is a place in Sheffield called 'the Brocco,' and also 'Brocco Bank.' Harrison mentions 'Brookow land,' and 'Brockoe hill.' 'The Brocco' was a piece of rough common on a hill. O. Icel. brok, bad black grass, and haugr, how, a hill. The Brocco was coarse, uncultivated land. 'The Brockoe Hill,' 1624.
BROODY, adj. desirous to sit; said of a hen.
BROOME.
- 'A close called Broome,' in Bradfield.—Harrison. He also mentions Broome lane.
BROOMEWELL, a field in Sheffield.
- Harrison calls it ''My Broomewell, as though it were in his own occupation.
BROOMLEY LAND. Harrison.
- Some fields at Dyche Lane, Norton, are called the Brummelleys.
BROOM TEA, sb. a decoction made of the green twigs of the broom and given in dropsy.
BROOMY FIELD, in Bradfield. Harrison.
- Place-names beginning with 'Broom' are very common in the neighbourhood of Sheffield.
BROSKOE HILL, a place in Sheffield.
- 'The said close called Broskoe hill.'—Harrison.
BROWIS or BREWIS, sb. a dish made of scalded oatcake and broth, with pepper, salt, and butter.
- 'Souppes de levrier, brewesse made of coarse browne bread moistened with the last and worst fat of the beefe-pot.'—Cotgrave.
