? Obs. [contr. of brocket.] = BROCKET.

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c. 1515.  Berkeley Castle, MS. Forester’s Acc., Item a brocke at fframtonys parke.

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1677.  N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat., I. (1721), 2. I … must call a Hart.… The third Year, a Brocke.

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1781.  Smellie, trans. Buffon’s Nat. Hist., IV. 87. They take the name of knobbers till their horns lengthen into spears, and then they are called brocks or staggards.

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1884.  Jefferies, Red Deer, ii. 39. In the olden time he would have been called a brocke or brocket.

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