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broach
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b???t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /b?o?t?/
- Rhymes: -??t?
- Homophone: brooch
Etymology 1
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; cognate to brochure).
Noun
broach (plural broaches)
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
- (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- Alternative spelling of brooch
- 2012, Cara C. Putman, A Promise Born
- She pinned a broach on her jacket.
When Viv saw it, she laughed. “Is that the best you can do? A flower broach?”
- She pinned a broach on her jacket.
- 2012, Cara C. Putman, A Promise Born
- A spit for cooking food.
- He turned a broach that had worn a crown.
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)
- (architecture, Britain, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
Translations
Verb
broach (third-person singular simple present broaches, present participle broaching, simple past and past participle broached)
- (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
- (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
- I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 4
- Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
- I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.
Related terms
- brochure
Translations
Etymology 2
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Verb
broach (third-person singular simple present broaches, present participle broaching, simple past and past participle broached)
- (intransitive) To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
- The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.
- (transitive) 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.
- 18th C, Thomas Dibdin, Tom Bowling
Translations
References
See also
- broach to
Scots
Alternative forms
- brutch, bruch, broche, brotch
Etymology
From Middle Scots broche, from Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus; possibly ultimately of Gaulish provenance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?br?t?/
- (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /?br??t?/
Noun
broach (plural broachs)
- (archaic) A spindle.
- (archaic) A slender or thin person (especially as a nickname).
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broch
English
Etymology
From Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b??x/, /?b??k/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b??x/, /?b??k/
Noun
broch (plural brochs)
- (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 268:
- Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 268:
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse borg.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /br?x/
Noun
broch (plural brochs)
- broch
- burgh, town
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *brox, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bro??/
Noun
broch m (plural brochod or brochion)
- badger
Synonyms
- daearfochyn
- mochyn daear
Mutation
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