brob

[ brob ]

noun

1. a wedge-shaped spike for securing an end of a timber butting against the side of another.

Word History and Origins

Origin of brob¹

First recorded in 1870–75; of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

“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.”

From Seattle Times

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."

From Project Gutenberg

Brob'dingnag, a country of enormous giants, to whom Gulliver was a tiny dwarf.

From Project Gutenberg