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brochs

brochs is the plural of broch.

Meaning of broch

Noun

broch (plural brochs)

  1. A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
    • Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 268
    Synonyms:
    Pictish tower

Questions about brochs

What is brochs the plural of?
Brochs is the plural of broch.

Words near brochs in the dictionary

  1. brochettes
  2. brochi
  3. brochidodromous
  4. broching
  5. brochos
  6. brochs
  7. Brochu
  8. brochure
  9. brochures
  10. brochureware
  11. brochus

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