broch

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɹɒx/|/ˈbɹɒk/    美 /ˈbɹɑx/|/ˈbɹɑk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
    — 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 […].

词形变化

brochs plural

词源

From Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.
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