brookward

English

Etymology

From brook +‎ -ward

Adverb

brookward (not comparable)

1. (rare) In the direction of a brook, toward a brook.
   • 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. G. Evans Publisher, page 159:

     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;

   • 1880, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “The Dam Pasture” (chapter XVII), in Odd, or Even?, Houghton, Osgood and Company, page 167:

     "'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.

   • 1897 May, Ed. W. Sandys, “Two Days' Trout-Fishing”, in Outing‎^[1], volume XXX, number 2, page 172:

     […] when every wee water-course seems to snicker gleefully as it romps along bound on business brookward.