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- What an ooean of hretns shall I swim in.'
Diodeaian (Beaumont and Fletcher). See in a pamphlet called A Quip fur an Upstart Courtier ^ by Eobert Greene, a.d. 1592: 'Wandering on further, Mercury espied where a company of shoemakers were at dinner, with powdered beef and hrewia.* A very interesting note on the word broweaae is in Vol. I. ?p. 53, 54 of the Camden Society's edition of the Promptorium
- arvidorum,
Bridlestyle, or Bridlestile, a narrow road for horses. The latter form pronounced braudUstaul. My informant, W. M., had seen many a pack-horse ; there were bells on the first horse. The road ran by the old workhouse f now being pulled down, 1876), down * taan,' by the Grammar School, tnen by the old road near Mr. Nowell's o' th' Wood, then by Woodsome, Woodsome Mill, Bugden, and so on to Wake- field. It was no cart-road ; it was called * Bridlestyle ro&d.* Brig, a bridge. Bright (pronounced breet), a clever contrivance. * There's allys new hreets,' Brigs, a trevet to set pots on, or, in brewing, to put across a tub to support the hoptemse. Broach, (pronounced braich — see Oa, 2), a piece of wood turned or ' thrown ' (as here called), something like a lead-pencil, tapering to one end, thicker at the other, but running to a point at both. It is intended to receive the * cop,' where the spindle has been, to wind off for the * bobbin.' Brock, a small insect which produces a kind of froth on plants, commonlv called cuckoo-spittle. Hence, perhaps, the saying, * He sweats lite a hrock^* though some are di^osed to derive this from brock, a badger. Brockholes (pronounced BrockhoHs), a station on the Huddersfield and Sheffield Bailway, in the ancient parish of Almondbury. Here the word brock no doubt means badger. See Tod. Broddle, to pick out, &c. A splinter in the hand is broddled out with a pin or needle ; a rabbit in a hole is broddled out ; so is a cork in a bottle when brought out piecemeal. HaUiwell says the word means to make holes. [It is a frequentative of brod, the same as l)rod.— W.W.S.] Brokken, the pronunciation of broken ; the past participle of break. Another form is BrekkexL Broo, brother : common with old-fashioned people. ' My broo John,' « my broo Will,' &c. Broomstale (gl, broomstail), a broom-stick, or broom-handle. Brotit Soup, porridge, &c. are all curiously spoken of in the plural. ' Will ye tak' a few P ' is common, and also in Cumberland and Westmoreland. An old London lawyer had the question put to him by his Yorkshire servant, who, to her ffreat surprise, was answered, * Seven, please.' Now * two or three, or * a to ar thre,' c
