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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.