browse v [phonetics unavailable]. Cp DC ~ out 'haul out logs by block and tackle' (1964) for sense 1.
   1 To haul in slack rope and secure it (P 129-64).
   2 To take one's time; to wander idly (Q 71-9).
   1904 Nfld Qtly Dec, p. 4 "Topsail Stages": [In Topsail] folks go browsin' and some carousin' / From St John's town on a summer day. P 237-79 Just browsin' around in the woods (i.e. lazing around, moving around doing nothing in particular; roaming around).

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