a. Sc. Forms: 8 bruket, bruckit, 9 brooket, bruikit (brü·kit). [Of uncertain origin: it has been taken as identical with BROCKED, but appears to be phonetically distinct.] Streaked or marked with black; soot-begrimed.
a. 1796. Burns, Wks. (1800), IV. 85 (Jam.). The bonie bruket Lassie certainly deserves better verses.
1810. Cock, Simple Strains, 137 (Jam.). Lat me to the brooket knave.
1832–53. Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs), II. 105. To milk our bruckit cow.
