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brob

/bɹɒb/

brob noun: a wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber where it abuts another. Much used in earlier times in the construction of tunnelled box-timber headings.

Noun

brob (plural brobs)

  1. A wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber where it abuts another. Much used in earlier times in the construction of tunnelled box-timber headings.

Verb

brob (third-person singular simple present brobs, present participle brobbing, simple past and past participle brobbed)

  1. (obsolete) To poke or prick

brob meaning in Bengali

brob in Bengali

খোঁচানো, বিঁধানো

Forms of brob

Noun
pluralbrobs
Verb
third-person singular presentbrobs
present participlebrobbing
past participlebrobbed
pastbrobbed

Questions about brob

What does brob mean?
Brob means a wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber where it abuts another. Much used in earlier times in the construction of tunnelled box-timber headings.
What is brob in Bengali?
Brob in Bengali is খোঁচানো, বিঁধানো. See Brob meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is brob?
Brob can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce brob?
Brob is pronounced /bɹɒb/.
What is the plural of brob?
The plural of brob is brobs.

Words near brob in the dictionary

  1. broasterie
  2. broasteries
  3. broasters
  4. broasting
  5. broasts
  6. brob
  7. brobactam
  8. brobbed
  9. brobbing
  10. Brobdingnag
  11. brobdingnagian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brob (page history and authors); brob (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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