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Broach   /broʊtʃ/   Listen
verb
Broach  v. t.  (past & past part. broached; pres. part. broaching)  
1.
To spit; to pierce as with a spit. "I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point."
2.
To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. "Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast."
3.
To open for the first time, as stores. "You shall want neither weapons, victuals, nor aid; I will open the old armories, I will broach my store, and will bring forth my stores."
4.
To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. "Those very opinions themselves had broached."
5.
To cause to begin or break out. (Obs.)
6.
(Masonry) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. (Scot. & North of Eng.)
7.
To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
To broach to (Naut.), to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.



noun
Broach  n.  
1.
A spit. (Obs.) "He turned a broach that had worn a crown."
2.
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
(Mech.)
(a)
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
(b)
A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
4.
(Masonry) A broad chisel for stonecutting.
5.
(Arch.) A spire rising from a tower. (Local, Eng.)
6.
A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
7.
A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
8.
The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
9.
The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.






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"Broach" Quotes from Famous Books



... in my mind was not shall we be married, but when shall we be married. But Isabel's mood was too serious, too majestic for me to broach these definite subjects now. I looked into her eyes. It seemed to me that my thoughts were silently communicated to her. She pressed my hand gently. And so after some days of packing, in which I helped her constantly, she sailed away and left me ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... days; Pa telling me about some girls he used to spark that I never woulda heard about if it hadn't been for that blizzard.... I told him about my first husband ... he's the one who left me the ant-tic broach ... we did get pretty cold ...
— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl

... ye wonderful defense which old Sr. Nicholas Throgmorton did make for himself before ye judges in ye time of Mary; which was unlucky matter to broach, sith it fetched out ye quene with a 'Pity yt he, having so much wit, had yet not enough to save his doter's maidenhedde sound for her marriage-bed.' And ye quene did give ye damn'd Sr. Walter a look yt made hym wince—for ...
— 1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors • Mark Twain

... and his horse deals took them on many trips into the surrounding country. Likewise she was with him when he was driving horses to sell on commission; and in both their minds, independently, arose a new idea concerning their pilgrimage. Billy was the first to broach it. ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... count, "you see that I am as red as a peony; spare me. I have wished for a long time to broach that delicate question to you, but my courage has failed me; since I have found it, at last, don't deprive me ...
— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet


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