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Webster 1913 Edition
Broke
1.
To transact business for another.
[R.]
Brome.
2.
To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
[Obs.]
We do want a certain necessary woman to
broke
between them, Cupid said. Fanshawe.
And
Corrupt the tender honor of a maid.
brokes
with all that can in such a suitCorrupt the tender honor of a maid.
Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Broke
BROKE
,Verb.
T.
To transact business for another in trade; to act as agent in buying and selling, and other commercial business; to transact business by an agent. [This word is little used, at least in America; and English writers seem to have used it in a low sense.]