brigge

brigge (plural brigges)

1. Obsolete form of bridge.

• brigge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Bigger, bigger

• brugge, brygge, bregge, brige, brig, bryge, brydge

Inherited from Old English brycġ. The final vowel is generalised from Old English inflected forms.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbridʒ(ə)/, /ˈbrudʒ(ə)/, /ˈbrɛdʒ(ə)/, /ˈbriɡ(ə)/

brigge (plural brigges)

1. A bridge (structure that crosses river or a divide)
   • c, 1375, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

     At Trumpyngtoun, nat fer fro Cantebrigge,

     There gooth a brook, and over that a brigge

     At Trumpington not far from Cambridge,

     there goes a brook, and over that a bridge

   1. A retractable bridge; a movable bridge.
   2. An entrance or exit platform.
   3. (figuratively) A straight raised portion of something; e.g. the bridge of a nose.

• English: bridge, brig (Northumbrian)
• Scots: brig
• Yola: burge

• “briǧǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-02.