brotie

Noun

brotie (plural broties)

1. A horizontal bar from which sheets of rubber are hung to dry.
   • The best estate drying rooms consist of a two-story building in which the No. 1 crêpe is hung on racks in the upper story; the ceiling of the bottom story, which constitutes the floor of the top story, is constructed of open broties or strips of wood, at any rate under the racks in the top story...1915, Transactions of the Third International Congress of Tropical Agriculture
   • It is, indeed, extremely difficult to hang pieces of thin crepe of any length in a smoke house, since the rubber quickly softens and stretches over the "broties" (sticks from which the rubber is hung) and finally tears, and drops to the floor of the smoke house.1918, Bertie James Eaton, J. Grantham, F. W. F. Day, The Preparation & Vulcanisation of Plantation Para Rubber - Página 184