Obs. Also 6 brew, 7 brue. [Etymology unknown.] A fowl; ? a kind of snipe.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, in Babees Bk. (1868), 143. Wodcok … resteratiff þey ar, & so is the brewe.
c. 1475. Noble Bk. Cookery (Napier, 1882), 63. A Brewe sley him in the mouthe, as a curlewe.
1513. Bk. Keruynge, in Babees Bk. (1868), 276. Vntache that brewe.
1605. in Archæol., XIII. 341. These Foules bee nowe in seasone … Brue.
