brough

Definitions

1. A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
2. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
3. A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7914).
   countable, uncountable
4. A hamlet in Brough and Shatton parish, High Peak district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1882).
   countable, uncountable
5. A town on the Humber estuary in Elloughton-cum-Brough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9426).
   countable, uncountable
6. A hamlet in Collingham parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8358).
   countable, uncountable
7. A small village in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2273).
   countable, uncountable
8. A settlement on Whalsay, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU5564).
   countable, uncountable
9. A settlement next to Burravoe, Yell, Shetland Islands council area (OS grid ref HU5179).
   countable, uncountable
10. A habitational surname from Old English.
    countable

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Examples

“[…] about the moon , called a brough, stormy weather is looked for within twenty-four hours; hence it is said, "a far off brough and a near hand storm." If small floating white clouds appear⟳, which are called cat hair, rain⟳ is[…]”

“The corona or brough occurs when the sun or moon is seen through a thin cirro-stratus cloud, the portion of the cloud more immediately around the sun or moon appearing much lighter than the rest⟳.”

“The County Antrim farmers say⟳ that bad weather may be expected whenever the new moon appears "on her back, with the new moon in her arms, and a brough round her," meaning by this the appearance[…]”

“Swainson, in his Weather Folklore, quotes: About the moon there is a brough, The weather will be cauld and rough.”

“... broughs which appeared around the moon […]”

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