north. dial. [perh. an erroneous form from BREEZE sb.2, sense 4: cf. next word.]
Disturbance, commotion, disagreement.
1790. Shirref, Poems, 67 (Jam.). Ye’ll … see It thro’ the parish raise an unco bree.
1807. Stagg, Poems, 8. They’re off wi’ seck a bree.
1831. Mrs. Wheeler, Westmrld. Dial., 88. We hed a sort of a bree ont afore ea went.
