brooke

plural brookes

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of brook.

   2 more examples

   Others the utmost boughs of trees doe crop, And brouze the woodbine twigges that freshly bud; This with full bit* doth catch the utmost top Of some soft willow, or new growen stud**; This with sharpe teeth the bramble leaves doth lop, 85 And chaw the tender prickles in her cud; The whiles another high doth overlooke Her owne like image in a christall brooke.

   1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

   It commences by explaining the terms "above" and "beneath the wood" to be two ancient divisions of the Forest, "beginning at the river Wye at Lydbrook, where the brooke there leading from the forges falls into the said river, and so up the said brooke or stream unto a place in the said Forest called Moyery Stock, and from thence along a Wayn-way at the bottom of a place called the Salley Vallett, and so along the same way between the two old enclosures that did belong to Ruardean and Little Dean Walks unto Cannop's Brooke, and down the said brooke to Cannop's Bridge; and from thence along the road or highway to the Speech-house, and from thence along the said highway to Foxe's Bridge, and from thence down Blackpool Brooke to Blakeney."

   1858, H. G. Nicholls, The Forest of Dean

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of brook.
2. obsoleteObsolete spelling of broke.

alternative Brook

1. A surname from Middle English.
2. A female given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular since the 1970s. it was further popularized by Brooke Shields in the 80s.
3. A village and civil parish (without a council) in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8405).