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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
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PRONUNCIATION:  brk
NOUN: An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English, from Middle Low German. See bhreg- in Appendix I.
 
 
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