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broach

noun
/bɹəʊtʃ/UK/bɹoʊt͡ʃ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *brokkos Gaulish *brokkosbor.? Vulgar Latin broccus Vulgar Latin brocca Old French brochebor. Middle English broche English broach From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure.

  1. derived from broccus
  2. derived from *brocca✻
  3. derived from broche
  4. inherited from broche

Definitions

  1. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone…

    A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.

  2. A broad chisel for stone-cutting.

  3. Alternative spelling of brooch.

    • Mr. S. had a large straw hat, and striped jacket and trousers, and his shirt fastened at the throat by a broach with Carry's hair, for he was always quite above wearing a neckcloth.
    • She pinned a broach on her jacket. When Viv saw it, she laughed. “Is that the best you can do? A flower broach?”
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. A spit for cooking food.

      • He turned a broach that had worn a crown.

    2. An awl

      An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.

      • It [the straw] is laid on to a considerable thickness and firmly secured by ropes or twisted straw, and pinned down by sharpened sticks called 'broaches'

    3. A spire rising from a tower.

    4. A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.

    5. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

    6. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

    7. To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the…

      To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.

      • How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.

    8. To open, to make an opening into

      To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.

      • French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.

    9. To begin discussion about (something).

      • I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
      • Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.
      • I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.

    10. To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.

      • The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.

    11. To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually…

      To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).

      • 18th C, Thomas Dibdin, Tom Bowling Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling ... for death hath broached him to.
      • Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.

    12. To break the surface of the water.

      • The Politovskiy soared through the surface of the Atlantic like a broaching whale, coming three quarters of her length out of the water before crashing back.

    13. A surname.

    14. Obsolete form of Bharuch.

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Derived

turnbroach, abroach, broachable, broacher

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA