obsolescent form of BROKEN.
1. Used occasionally for BROKEN ppl. a.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. II. 14. Leepfullis of broke meat.
1463. Bury Wills (1850), 41. To recompense broke silvir I had of his.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, IV. v. Bodies disjoind, broke glasses they esteem.
2. esp. in comb.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 25. Witlese beastes dumbe and broke rugget ibuhe toward te eorðe.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 131. Blinde or broke-schonket [B. VI. 138 broke-legged].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 53. Broke bakkyde, gibbosus.
1470. Harding, Chron., clvii. iii. Brokebacked and bowbacked bore.
1627. May, Lucan, V. (R.). Broke-winded murmers, howlings, and sadd grones.
