Lexicographical Neighbors of Brockit
Literary usage of Brockit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen by L. Herrig (1872)
"128): there 's Gowans, and there 's your ain brockit cow. ... A cow is said to
be brockit, that has black spots or streaks, mingled with white, in her face. ..."
2. An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland by John Walker (1808)
"His wool is superior, both in quantity and quality, to that of the brockit sheep.
He is. the boldest, the most hardy and active of all the sheep kind. ..."
3. Middle Temple Table Talk: With Some Talk about the Table Itself by William George Thorpe (1895)
"... brockit coo. Well, noo, if any ane was to tell ye that he had seen John ...
brockit coo climb up the muckle tree that stands ahint the Laird's hoose, ..."
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