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~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._

Isl. _brodur_, pl. _broeder_.

~Brodir-Dochter~, _s._ A niece, S.

_Wyntown._

_Brodir-son_ or _brother-son_, and _sister-son_, are used in the same manner; and _brother-bairn_ for cousin, S.

A Swed. idiom. _Brorsdotter_, niece; _brorson_, nephew; _brorsbarn_, the children of a brother.

BROD MALE, BRODMELL, _s._ The brood brought forth, or littered, at the same time.

_Douglas._

From A. S. _brod_, proles, and _mael_, tempus; or O. Germ, _mael_, consors, _socius_; whence _ee-ghe-mael_, conjunx, Kilian.

~Brod Sow~, A sow that has a litter.

_Polwart._

_To_ BROG, _v. a._ To pierce, to strike with a sharp instrument, S.

_Acts Ja. I._

Hence _broggit staff_, mentioned as a subst.i.tute for an ax. The term _prog-staff_ is now used in the same sense, q. v.

~Brog~, _s._

1. A pointed instrument; such as an awl, S.

2. A job with such an instrument, S.

BROG, BROGUE, _s._ A coa.r.s.e and light kind of shoe, made of horse-leather, much used by the Highlanders, and by those who go to shoot in the hills, S.

Ir. Gael. _brog_, a shoe.