brike

From Old English brice, from Proto-West Germanic *bruki.

brike (plural brikes)

1. A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3579-3580:

     [...] Genilon Oliver, corrupt for mede,
     Broghte this worthy king in swich a brike.

     [...] Ganelon-Oliver, corrupt for a bribe,
     Brought this worthy king into such a plight.

• “brike”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Of Germanic origin, from Middle Low German bricke and Middle Dutch brike, related to breken (“to break”). Cognate with French brique.

• IPA^(key): /bʀik/

brike

1. brick