"brob" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bɹɒb/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-brob.wav [Southern-England] Forms: brobs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} brob (plural brobs)
  1. A wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber where it abuts another. Much used in earlier times in the construction of tunnelled box-timber headings.
    Sense id: en-brob-en-noun-JoLM~1bo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11

Verb

IPA: /bɹɒb/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-brob.wav [Southern-England] Forms: brobs [present, singular, third-person], brobbing [participle, present], brobbed [participle, past], brobbed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} brob (third-person singular simple present brobs, present participle brobbing, simple past and past participle brobbed)
  1. (obsolete) To poke or prick Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-brob-en-verb-Y6Pjq8iX

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for brob meaning in English (2.3kB)

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