brob

[brob]

noun

a wedge-shaped spike for securing an end of a timber butting against the side of another.

Origin of brob

First recorded in 1870–75; of uncertain origin

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Brob'dingnag, a country of enormous giants, to whom Gulliver was a tiny dwarf.
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