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brob
[ brob ]
noun
- a wedge-shaped spike for securing an end of a timber butting against the side of another.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of brob1
First recorded in 1870–75; of uncertain origin
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“He’s played well when he’s had the opportunity to play. He’s got some extensive playing time in the game BRob missed against Southern Miss. We’re very confident in him.â€
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Brob`dingnag, an imaginary country in "Gulliver's Travels," inhabited by giants, each as tall "as an ordinary spire-steeple"; properly a native of the country, in comparison with whom Gulliver was a pigmy "not half so big as a round little worm plucked from the lazy finger of a maid."
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Brob'dingnag, a country of enormous giants, to whom Gulliver was a tiny dwarf.
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