brigge
English
Noun
brigge (plural brigges)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Etymology
Inherited from Old English brycġ, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ.
Pronunciation
Noun
brigge (plural brigges or bruggen)
- 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
- A retractable bridge; a movable bridge.
- An entrance or exit platform.
- (figuratively) A straight raised portion of something; e.g. the bridge of a nose.
- c, 1375, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales[1]
Descendants
References
- “briǧǧe (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-02.
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- enm:Bridges
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