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break verb To bolt, go in haste.
1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) Well, the dogs broke when we got pretty close to a bear’s den. Why, we couldn’t do nothin’ with our dogs. They just broke. 1956 Hall Coll (Big Bend NC) She looked around and there was a string had come acrost to the fence away from her a-holding her dress there, and she broke to run and run to the house and fell in the door dead. 2007 McMillon Notes: break to run = to take off quickly.