Meaning of brough | Babel Free

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:
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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).
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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

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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