1 BROC
m? A BROCK, badger; taxo = tassus [=tasso It: taisson Fr.], meles :-- Broc taxo vel melus, Wrt. Voc. 78, 4: Ælfc. Gl. 19; Som. 59, 10; Wrt. Voc. 22, 53. Sum fyðerféte nýten is, ðæt we nemnaþ taxonem, ðæt ys broc on Englisc there is a four-footed animal, which we name taxonem, that is brock in English, Med. ex Quadr. 1, 2; Lchdm. i. 326, 12. [Wyc. brok: Laym. brockes, pl: Dan. brok: Icel. brokkr, m: Wel. Corn. broch: Ir. broc, m: Gael. broc, bruic, m: Manx broc, m: Armor, broc'h, m.] broc