Obs. exc. Sc. Also 6 brogge, 8 brougue. [Deriv. unknown. Cf. BROGGER.] An escheat; a cheat, fraud, trick.
1537. St. Papers Hen. VIII., I. 548. Ne any brogges or meanes that any of those borderers canne make, shall cause Us to altre that which We have established.
1634. Jackson, Creed, VII. xxvii. The sacred treasury (unto which such brogues or escheats as this were by ordinary course due).
1784. Burns, Addr. Deil, xvi. Ye [Satan] came to Paradise incog, An’ play’d on man a cursed brogue.
1791. Ep. J. Priestley, in Poet. Register (1808), 401. Then … [they] strive Who first a bargain with their Queen shall drive, While no mean lure her beckoning hand displays, The well-known royal brougues of better days.
