brog

plural brogs

1. obsoleteA pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.

present singular third person brogs · participle present brogging · participle past brogged · past brogged

1. obsoletetransitiveTo prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.

   the stony-hearted villains were brogging them on wi' their lances!

   1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC

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   D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other Arniston chield there, without muckle greater parts, if the close-head speak true, than mysell, maun be presidents

   1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms: broggle

plural brogs

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of brogue