<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>a simple past tense of break.</li><li>Nonstandard: a past participle of break.</li><li>Archaic: a past participle of break.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>without money; penniless.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Papermaking: paper unfit for sale; paper that is to be repulped.</li><li>brokes, wool of poor quality taken from the neck and belly of sheep.</li></ul>