1 gen 1646 anni - brog

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A dialect word for brushwood used as animal fodder. A Fountains Abbey lease of 1524 allowed the Haxby family of Hartwith to take <i>firewood and brogge for the cattle</i>: in Warsill in 1526 the tenants were required to keep the cattle in their charge <i>with hay, oke and hollyn broge </i>(YRS140/189,166). It had the same meaning as the more common ‘bruise’ or ‘browse’: 1548 <i>all the broyges or browes pertaining to the same spring</i>, Shelf (YRS39/151). It occurs rarely as a verb: 1646 <i>cattell to brogg the same woodes</i>, Tong (Mss8a7-8). 1727 <i>one Acre thereof which is near the Highway which is damaged and brogg’d</i>, Kirkheaton (WBM/86). It explains the place-names Brogg Wood and Broggs Hall, both in Cumberworth, and Broggin in Bradfield. The EDD has an entry for ‘brogwood’.

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