subs. (common).—1. Cloth, i.e., broad-cloth.
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I., 54. Gentlemen finding their own BROADY can be accommodated.
1883. Daily Telegraph, August 7, 6, 2. The prospectus further intimated that … gentlemen ‘finding their own BROADY … could be accommodated.’
2. (thieves’).—Anything worth stealing: see BROADY-WORKER.
