[Apparently in its origin a mere dictionary word, though perh. it may have found its way into actual use; ad. mod. or med.L. burrochium, ad. OF. bourroiche, explained by Littré and Godef. as an apparatus made of wicker-work for catching fish.]
1701. Cowell’s Interpreter (ed. Kennet), Burrochium, a Burrock or small Wear, where Wheels [i.e., weels] are lay’d in a River, for the taking of Fish.
1706. in Phillips; hence in Bailey, Johnson, and mod. Dicts.
