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brookward

brookward adverb: in the direction of a brook, toward a brook.

Adverb

brookward (not comparable)

  1. (rare) In the direction of a brook, toward a brook.
    • Did you ever go a fishing ? If you have not, I advise you to buy a rod and line, and start brookward on such an adventure;1860, Joseph Holt Ingraham (writer), “Letter XX”, in The Sunny South; or, The Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of the Sugar and the Cotton, G....
    • "'T won't be Tryphosy Clark that 'll hev the buyin' of it, nor yet the makin'," said the bride-elect, as she rose and led the promised way, brookward.1880, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “The Dam Pasture” (chapter XVII), in Odd, or Even?, Houghton, Osgood and Company, page 167

Origin of brookward

From brook + -ward.

Questions about brookward

What does brookward mean?
Brookward means in the direction of a brook, toward a brook.
What part of speech is brookward?
Brookward is an adverb.

Words near brookward in the dictionary

  1. Brookthorpe
  2. Brookthorpe-with-Whaddon
  3. Brooktrails
  4. Brookvale
  5. Brookville
  6. brookward
  7. brookweed
  8. brookweeds
  9. Brookwood
  10. brooky
  11. brool

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