broch
English
editEtymology
editFrom Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.
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editbroch (plural brochs)
- (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 268:
- Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].
- 1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 29, in Outlander, London: Random House:
- Ian's eyes rolled slowly up, as though following the rough stones of the broch upwards. 'That tower rises sixty feet from the ground,' he told me, 'and it's thirty feet in diameter, wi' three floors.'
Scots
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editbroch (plural brochs)
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editbroch m (plural broches)
Welsh
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editFrom Middle Welsh broch, from Proto-Brythonic *brox, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.
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editbroch m (plural brochod)
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edit- melfroch (“honey badger”)
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