Noun: broch
| Singular | broch |
| Plural | brochs |
Sample Sentences
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Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […]. [1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 268:]
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The last man slid the bolt in the single low narrow door. The broch was impregnable then. [1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 20:]
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Ian's eyes rolled slowly up, as though following the rough stones of the broch upwards. 'That tower rises sixty feet from the ground,' he told me, 'and it's thirty feet in diameter, wi' three floors.' [1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 29, in Outlander, London: Random House:]
Nouns inflected like broch
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh. See: Old Norse Nouns '
borg'.