Obs. Also 5 bryke. [a. ONF. brique, bricque, var. of briche, brice, trap, gin.] A trap, a snare; a ‘fix,’ a dilemma.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 128. If a man falle in bryke [v.r. brygge] for worldly richesses.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monkes T., 400. Geniloun Oliver … Broughte this worthy king in such a bryk [v.r. brike, bryke].
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, IV. xxxv. (1483), 83. Ne hit belongeth nought to suche offycers for the kynges profite to meue newe brykes.
a. 1420. Occleve, De Reg. Princ., 176. They rekke not what brike her lorde be ynne.
