Obs. exc. dial. [f. BROD sb.1]
† 1. intr. To shoot, sprout. Obs.
c. 1200. Ormin, 10769. To broddenn & to blomenn.
2. trans. To goad, prod, urge with pricks. north. dial. Also fig.
c. 1450. Henryson, Mor. Fabl., 73. The caller … broded them ful sair.
1483. Cath. Angl., 44. To Brod, stimulare.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., III. 28. The stang of conscience broddit him so soir.
a. 1568. Wife of Auchterm. And brodit his buttock.
1566. Drant, Horace Sat., V. A tyraunte forces the, and broaddes the forwarde still.
1789. R. Fergusson, Poems, II. 82 (Jam.). His words they brodit like a wumil, Frae ear to ear.
1877. Peacock, N. W. Linc. Gloss., Brod, to prick, to poke; to cut up thistles.
