ice-brook a cold or icy brook:
“It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper,”
OTHELLO, v. 2. 256.
“Steel is hard ened by being put red-hot into very cold
water”
(JOHNSON)
. According to Steevens, who cites Martial and Justin, the ice-brook of our text is“undoubtedly the brook or rivulet called Salo (now Xalon), near Bilbilis in
Celtiberia.”