Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To vomit.
  • To vomit; belch forth; vent.
  • noun Vomit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete To throw out; to vomit.
  • noun obsolete Vomit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To vomit, spew out.
  • noun archaic Vomit; vomiting.

Etymologies

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From Middle French par- + brake.

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Examples

  • O daughter mine, thou hast begun to put thy hand to the plough of virtue, leaving the parbreak of mortal sin; it behoves thee, then, to persevere, to receive the reward of thy labour, which thy soul endures, choosing to bridle its youth, that it may not run to be a member of the devil.

    Letters of Catherine Benincasa of Siena Catherine 1363

  • 9 Her filthy parbreak all the place defiled has. parbreak > vomit

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

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