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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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brock basket
noun
a basket used especially for damaged fruit;
Only perfect berries were accepted. All the others had to be put into what was called a brock-basket.
20-
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etymology:
Scots
brock
‘rubbish, broken pieces’ + English
basket
; attested by
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