Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See brough.

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Examples

  • Ye see it's a royal brugh, this, an 'it costs but aboot a penny, an' it's gran 'like to hae a sma' cannon to fire.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • About the moon there is a brugh: the weather will be cauld and rough.

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

  • I glance like the wildfire through brugh and through land. ''

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • I glance like the wildfire through brugh and through land.”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • "Nay, Miss Rothesay, do not quit your easel; Miss Van-brugh will accompany me through the garden, and besides, I wish to speak to her about her clematis.

    Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • I glance like the wildfire through brugh and through land. "

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

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