brook1

[broo k] /brʊk/
noun
1.
a small, natural stream of fresh water.
Origin
before 900; Middle English; Old English brōc stream; cognate with Dutch broek, German Bruch marsh
Related forms
brookless, adjective
brooklike, adjective

brook2

[broo k] /brʊk/
verb (used with object)
1.
to bear; suffer; tolerate:
I will brook no interference.
Origin
before 900; Middle English brouken, Old English brūcan; cognate with Dutch bruiken, German brauchen; akin to Gothic brukjan, Latin fruī to enjoy
Related forms
brookable, adjective
Synonyms
take, stand, endure, abide, stomach.
Examples from the web for brook
  • In such case the light rays stream over that something as water in a swift brook streams over a submerged boulder.
  • East of the cottages, a unique eco-friendly water-filtration system cleans brook water for the lodge's use.
  • None of these facts brook disagreement, but here the unity ends.
  • Finding traces of pollution in a supposedly pristine mountain brook is sadly no longer surprising.
  • She doesn't brook with the nay-saying privacy advocates of the past.
  • As if to confirm my feeling, a pair of mallards burst up from an island in the brook.
  • But, shortly after coming to power, the president showed that he would not brook dissent.
  • The situation is too pressing to brook delay, and immediate measures are necessary.
  • Let this arrangement of metal, placed in the course of a brook, symbolize the machine of human life.
  • If you've ever fished for wild brook trout, you know that they can hear your footfalls quite aways away.
British Dictionary definitions for brook

brook1

/brʊk/
noun
1.
a natural freshwater stream smaller than a river
Word Origin
Old English brōc; related to Old High German bruoh swamp, Dutch broek

brook2

/brʊk/
verb
1.
(transitive; usually used with a negative) to bear; tolerate
Derived Forms
brookable, adjective
Word Origin
Old English brūcan; related to Gothic brūkjan to use, Old High German brūhhan, Latin fruī to enjoy

Brook

/brʊk/
noun
1.
Peter (Paul Stephen). born 1925, British stage and film director, noted esp for his experimental work in the theatre
Word Origin and History for brook
n.

"small stream," Old English broc "flowing stream, torrest," of obscure origin, probably from Proto-Germanic *broka- which yielded words in German (Bruch) and Dutch (broek) that have a sense of "marsh." In Sussex and Kent, it means "water-meadow," and in plural, "low, marshy ground."

v.

"to endure," Old English brucan "use, enjoy, possess; eat; cohabit with," from Proto-Germanic *bruk- "to make use of, enjoy" (cf. Old Saxon brukan, Old Frisian bruka, Old High German bruhhan, German brauchen "to use," Gothic brukjan), from PIE root *bhrug- "to make use of, have enjoyment of" (cf. Latin fructus). Sense of "use" applied to food led to "be able to digest," and by 16c. to "tolerate."

brook in the Bible

a torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3). (3.) In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.