Sc. Also breakshugh, breckshaw. [Derivation and correct form of second element unknown: it cannot be connected with OE. bræc-séoc epileptic.] The dysentery in sheep.
1799. Ess. Highl. Soc., III. 411 (Jam.). Dysentery or Braxy, Breckshaw.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., IV. 199. There is a disease among sheep, called by shepherds the Breakshugh, a deadly sort of dysentery.
1822. W. J. Napier, Pract. Store-farming, 139. It [draining] prevents a great many of the diseases to which sheep are liable, and particularly breakshuach, rot, foot-rot, and braxy.
