Meaning of Broke | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
2. A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.”

“Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.”

“These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.”

“Why dost though linger, then, / To hear the flatteries of these men of rags? / These bankrupt beggar-men, / Whose riches are the broke meat in their bags?”

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