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  • broke, bruck
    /brok/ [Atlantic; cf. Scots, Irel. dial. bruck break (Hancock 1971:155), also US dial. ADD] v. to break: 1918 My leg
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  • broil
    [OED, to cook (meat) by placing it on the fire, or on a gridiron over it; W3 to cook by
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  • broad out
    (Black); broaden out (Nassau, Eleu.) [Car.; cf. Sra. bradi to spread WST; cf. OED broad v. obs. → 1399 and
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  • broad-lip conch
    [cf. DJE broadleaf conch a variety of large conch whose shell opens out with a broad, leaflike appendage; cf. also
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  • broad-leaved wild pineapple
    [from the resemblance of the leaves to those of the pineapple] n., Obs. the cactuslike pinguin, Bromelia pinguin, related to
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  • broad (2): talk broad
    [cf. OED broad used of a strongly marked dialectal or vulgar pronunciation ... Broad Cockney] phr. to speak a basilectal
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  • broad (1)
    adj. (of feet) wide. (Exuma)
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  • bro
    See B'.
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  • brittle thatch
    [DAE idem 1884 →] n. the silver-top palmetto, Thrinax argentea: 1788 Among the indigenous palms [are] Great Thatch and Brittle
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  • britches
    [cf. US dial. idem breeches, short trousers n.pl. W3] n. sing., pl. trousers: 1966 This britches (Crowley 99). (Eleu, White).
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