▪ I. † brike Obs.
Also 5 bryke.
[a. ONF. brique, bricque, var. of briche, brice, trap, gin.]
A trap, a snare; a ‘fix’, a dilemma.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 128 If a man falle in bryke [v.r. brygge] for worldly richesses. c 1386 Chaucer Monk's T. 400 Geniloun Oliver..Broughte this worthy king in such a bryk [v.r. brike, bryke]. 1413 Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iv. xxxv. (1483) 83 Ne hit belongeth nought to suche offycers for the kynges profite to meue newe brykes. a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 176 They rekke not what brike her lorde be ynne. |
▪ II. brike, brikke
obs. forms of brick.