? Obs. [contr. of brocket.] = BROCKET.
c. 1515. Berkeley Castle, MS. Foresters Acc., Item a brocke at fframtonys parke.
1677. N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat., I. (1721), 2. I must call a Hart. The third Year, a Brocke.
1781. Smellie, trans. Buffons Nat. Hist., IV. 87. They take the name of knobbers till their horns lengthen into spears, and then they are called brocks or staggards.
1884. Jefferies, Red Deer, ii. 39. In the olden time he would have been called a brocke or brocket.