Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A murmuring sound as of wind blowing through a forest.

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Examples

  • All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a "brool" over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom.

    The Deadlocked City Elon, Amos 2001

  • All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a "brool" over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom.

    Dracula 1897

  • All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a "brool" over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom.

    National Review Online 2009

  • 'brool' over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom.

    Dracula Bram Stoker 1879

  • All vastness, the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a ‘brool’ over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom.

    Dracula 2003

  • Its _brool_ deepening, the Parrott stirred, shot forward abruptly.

    The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • It resembled the brool of lions heard afar by seafaring men upon some savage shore on a still night.

    The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

  • There was the brool of war in the valley of Howpaslet.

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

  • List to the brool of that royal forest-voice; sorrowful, low; fast swelling to a roar!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • While I read "at once" to mean "all at the same time" you obviously read it as "immediately." so while your follow up made little sense to me since it was redundant in the manner in which I read the thread starter's comment, it was quite sensible in the manner in which you read it. therefore, I dug you back up. brool story co.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

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  • (A low roar; a deep murmur or humming.)

    July 31, 2007

  • All vastness, the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a 'brool' over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom. Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in the mist, and seem 'men like trees walking'. The fishing boats are racing for home, and rise and dip in the ground swell as they sweep into the harbour, bending to the scuppers. - Dracula

    March 8, 2009