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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



... bathroom temporarily uninhabitable. Naturally I lodged a complaint, and finally got at the whole story. By the way, he said I wasn' to tell you; but I told him I probably should. That's only a detail, but I mention it in case you should be tempted to broach the subject to him. I shouldn't advise you to do so, as I think you will probably find him rather ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... conduct; that bread and milk are more favorable to laughter and soft, childish ways than beef-steaks and pickles three times a day; that an occasional whipping, even, will conduce to rosy cheeks? It is an idea which I should never dare to broach to an American mother; but I must confess that, after my travels on the Western Continent, my opinions have a tendency in that direction. Beef-steaks and pickles certainly produce smart little men and women. Let that be taken for granted. But rosy laughter and winning, childish ...
— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope
... pleasant excursions to America, and the society had been able to form very definite opinions upon their teaching. And Mr. Britling was one of the representative thinkers upon which this society had decided to inform itself. It was to broach this invitation and to offer him the impressive honorarium by which the society honoured not only its guests but itself, that Mr. Direck had now come to Matching's Easy. He had already sent Mr. Britling a letter of introduction, ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells
... sworn to that. No true son of the church would ever broach such a doctrine. Only fancy, signori, the number of imaginary fires, tongues, and other instruments of torture that would become necessary to carry on punishment under such a system! To be consistent, even the devils ought ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... received Mme. de Lorcy's embraces; but she smiled graciously on M. Langis, and pressed his hand affectionately. Mme. de Lorcy led them into her salon, where they talked on indifferent subjects. Antoinette was waiting for M. Langis's departure to broach the subject that she had at heart. At the end of twenty minutes, he rose, but immediately reseated himself. A door had just opened, giving admittance to ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez


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