Broch

Pronunciation

UK IPA: /ËˆbÉ¹É’x/, /ËˆbÉ¹É’k/
US IPA: /ËˆbÉ¹É‘x/, /ËˆbÉ¹É‘k/

Origin

From Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Compare borough.

Full definition of broch

Noun

broch

(plural brochs)

(archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-skinned walls found on Orkney and Shetland and parts of the Scottish mainland.

1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 268: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 â€¦.----