Obs. Also 7 brutte. [perh. a. F. brouter ‘to browse’: but cf. BRET, BRIT v.]

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  1.  intr. To browse. Hence BRUTTING vbl. sb.

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1577.  [see BRUTTING vbl. sb.].

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1674.  Ray, S. & E. C. Wds., 60. To brutte, to browse. Suss. Dial.

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1699.  Evelyn, Acetaria (1729), 145. Marking what the goats so greedily brutted upon.

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  2.  trans. dial. To break off (young shoots).

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Mod. Kent. Dial., Your potatoes don’t come up because the young shoots were brutted off.

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