Usually means: Small town or large village.
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  1. brough: Merriam-Webster
  2. Brough, brough: Wordnik
  3. Brough: Wiktionary
  4. brough: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. brough: Dictionary.com
  6. Brough (disambiguation), Brough: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Brough: Rhymezone

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  1. brough: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Brough: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Brough: Dictionary of Military Architecture

Definitions from Wiktionary (Brough)

noun:  (uncountable) A placename:
noun:  A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7914).
noun:  A hamlet in Brough and Shatton parish, High Peak district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1882).
noun:  A town on the Humber estuary in Elloughton-cum-Brough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9426).
noun:  A hamlet in Collingham parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8358).
noun:  A small village in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2273).
noun:  A settlement on Whalsay, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU5564).
noun:  A settlement next to Burravoe, Yell, Shetland Islands council area (OS grid ref HU5179).
noun:  (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

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