brookward

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adverb

In the direction of a brook, toward a brook.

First used 19th c.Scrabble 19
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Meanings

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  1. not comparablerareIn the direction of a brook, toward a brook.First known use 19th c.

    […] when every wee water-course seems to snicker gleefully as it romps along bound on business brookward.

    1897 May 29, Ed. W. Sandys, “Two Days' Trout-Fishing”, in Outing, volume XXX, number 2, page 172
    2 more examples

    Did you ever go a fishing ? If you have not, I advise you to buy a rod and line, and start brookward on such an adventure;

    1860, Joseph Holt Ingraham (writer), “Letter XX”, in The Sunny South; or, The Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of the Sugar and the Cotton, G. G. Evans Publisher, page 159

    "'T won't be Tryphosy Clark that 'll hev the buyin' of it, nor yet the makin'," said the bride-elect, as she rose and led the promised way, brookward.

    1880, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “The Dam Pasture” (chapter XVII), in Odd, or Even?, Houghton, Osgood and Company, page 167

Origin

From brook + -ward.

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APA

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Chicago

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