Ge-broc
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-broc
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-broc
- Add: (1) a breaking, a fragment :-- THORN;á legde heacute; beforan heom þone hláf, and þá þá hiacute; wǽron gereordade, heacute; gesomnode of þám maacute;re on þám gebrocum (fragmentis) þonne se hláf sylf ǽr wǽre. Eác swylce hé bróhte eft on óðre dæge þám wyrhtum tó gereordnesse, ac ꝥ þǽr wæs tó láfe of þám gebrocum wæs þá gyt máre þonne þá gebrocu ǽr wǽron . . . efne swylce þá gebrocu þæs hláfes þurh þone ǽt weóxon, Gr. D. 252, 13-23. v. hláf-gebroc. (3) trouble. Take here ge-bróc (l. -broc) in Dict., and add :-- Gif hé þá áne un-treówþa ne gedyde, from ðǽm dæge hé mehte bútan gebroce eallra Cartaina onwald begietan, Ors. 4, 5 ; S. 170, 12. ge-broc