brigge

English

Noun

brigge (plural brigges)

1. Obsolete form of bridge.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brigge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Bigger, bigger

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• brugge, brygge, bregge, brige, brig, bryge, brydge

Etymology

Inherited from Old English brycġ, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bridʒ/, /brudʒ/, /brɛdʒ/, /briɡ/

Noun

brigge (plural brigges or bruggen)

1. A bridge (structure that crosses river or a divide)
   • c, 1375, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales[1]

     At Trumpyngtoun, nat fer fro Cantebrigge,

     There gooth a brook, and over that a brigge

     At Trumpington not far from Cambridge,

     there goes a brook, and over that a bridge

   1. A retractable bridge; a movable bridge.
   2. An entrance or exit platform.
   3. (figuratively) A straight raised portion of something; e.g. the bridge of a nose.

Descendants

• English: bridge, brig (Northumbrian)
• Scots: brig

References

• “briǧǧe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-02.