dial. [OE. broc; cf. ON. brokkr ‘a trotter, of a horse’ Vigf.] ? A horse, a trotting horse; an inferior horse, a jade.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 184. Secen him broc on onrade.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Friar’s T., 243. The Cartere smoot and cryde … Hayt Brok, hayt Scot, what spare ye for the stones.
1586. Warner, Alb. Eng., II. x. 47. She stumbled headlong downe … hoyst Brock, her good-man saide; And thirdly falling, kindly bad her breake her necke, olde Iade.
1847–78. Halliwell, Brock, a cow, or husbandry horse.
