(rare) In the direction of abrook, toward a brook.[from 19th c.]
1860,Joseph Holt Ingraham (writer), “Letter XX”, inThe Sunny South; or, The Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of the Sugar and the Cotton, G. G. Evans Publisher,page159:
Did you ever go a fishing ? If you have not, I advise you to buy a rod and line, and startbrookward on such an adventure;
