▪ I. brod, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.
(brɒd)
Also 3 brodd, 5 brode. See also brad.
[ME., app. a. ON. brodd-r spike, shaft, spike on a plant, = OE. brord spike, point, spire, OHG. brort edge, margin (cf. braird, brerd), Goth. *brozds:—OTeut. *brozdo-z. There was a cognate OCeltic brott-, whence OIr. brot sting, prick, mod.Ir. and Gael. brod, which may be the source of some of the senses. Almost exclusively northern, and mainly Scotch. Cf. prod.]
† 1. A shoot or sprout. rare. [cf. braird.]
| c 1200 Ormin 10772 Nazaræþ bitacneþþ uss Onn Ennglissh brodd & blome. [Cf. Heb. nētser shoot.] |
2. A goad, prick, pointed instrument.
| c 1375 ? Barbour St. Paulus 543 Saule, Saule..it is..hard to þe A-gane þe brod þe for to prese. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xiv. 70 Gyve a man wald in thame thryst A scharpe brode. 1483 Cath. Angl. 44 A Brod, aculeus, stimulus, stiga. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John x. 75 Roddes, axes, broddes to pricke. 1661 Bp. Cosin Corr. (Surtees) II. 311 For brod [note, or spit] paper at the Stationer's for the cooke. 1721 Kelly Sc. Prov. 168 (Jam.) He was never a good aver, that flung at the brod. |
b. fig. An incentive, stimulus, motive.
| c 1375 ? Barbour St. Agnes 370 Þe wikit geste Fandit hyme..Vith þe brodis of lichery. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. II. 122 Ire and lust, quhilkis ar two maist sorrowful broddis amang wemen. |
3. A prick from a goad; a prod.
| 1549 Compl. Scot. iii. 28 Ane ox that repungnis the brod of his hird, he gettis doubil broddis. |
† 4. A prickle or thorn. Obs. rare.
| 1549 Compl. Scot. xvii. 148 The palme tre hes schearp broddis and pikis. |
5. a. A round-headed nail made by blacksmiths. b. An instrument for cutting up thistles. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss.
▪ II. brod, n.2
A Scotch (brɔd) variant of board (see senses 1–4). Also, an escutcheon (obs.).
| 1643 Acts Ass. 171 (Jam.) Abuses in hinging of pensils and brods, affixing of honours and arms,—hath crept in. 1861 Ramsay Remin. Ser. ii. 26 As he went round with the ladle, he used to remind such members of the congregation as seemed backward in their duty, by giving them a poke with the ‘brod’. |
▪ III. brod, v. Obs. exc. dial.
[f. brod n.1]
† 1. intr. To shoot, sprout. Obs.
| c 1200 Ormin 10769 To broddenn & to blomenn. |
2. trans. To goad, prod, urge with pricks. north. dial. Also fig.
| c 1450 Henryson Mor. Fabl. 73 The caller..broded them ful sair. 1483 Cath. Angl. 44 To Brod, stimulare. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 28 The stang of conscience broddit him so soir. a 1568 Wife of Auchterm., And brodit his buttock. 1566 Drant Horace Sat. v, A tyraunte forces the, and broaddes the forwarde still. 1789 R. Fergusson Poems II. 82 (Jam.) His words they brodit like a wumil, Frae ear to ear. 1877 Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Brod, to prick, to poke; to cut up thistles. |
▪ IV. brod(e
obs. f. broad, brood.