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noun
a circular stone tower built around the beginning of the Christian era, having an inner and an outer wall, found on the Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, the Hebrides, and the mainland of Scotland.
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| (in Scotland) a circular dry-stone tower large enough to serve as a fortified home; they date from the Iron Age and are found esp in the north and the islands | |
| [C17: from Old Norse borg; related to Old English burh settlement, burgh] | |
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Broch
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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broch
prehistoric stone tower of the Scottish Highland and isles, 1650s, from Scot. broch, from O.N. borg "castle," cognate of O.E. burh (see borough).
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