broach

See also:Broachandbroaçh

English

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/bɹəʊtʃ/
• (US)IPA^(key):/bɹoʊt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes:-əʊtʃ
• Homophone:brooch

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Englishbroche,fromOld Frenchbroche,fromVulgar Latin*brocca,originally a feminine form ofLatinbroccus,perhaps ultimately ofGaulishorigin (seeScottish Gaelicbròg;cognate tobrochure).

Noun

broach(pluralbroaches)

1. A series ofchiselpointsmountedon one piece ofsteel.For example, the toothed stone chisel shownhere.
2. (masonry)A broadchiselfor stone-cutting.
3. Alternative spelling ofbrooch
   • 1831,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, inRomance and Reality.[…],volume III, London:Henry ColburnandRichard Bentley,[…],→OCLC,page123:

     Mr. S. had a large straw hat, and striped jacket and trousers, and his shirt fastened at the throat by abroachwith Carry's hair, for he was always quite above wearing a neckcloth.

   • 2012,Cara C. Putman,A Promise Born:

     She pinned abroachon her jacket.
     When Viv saw it, she laughed. “Is that the best you can do? A flowerbroach?”

4. Aspitfor cooking food.
   • 1622,Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e.Francis Bacon],The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh,[…],London:[…]W[illiam]Stansbyfor Matthew Lownes, and William Barret,→OCLC:

     He turned abroachthat had worn a crown.

5. Anawl;abodkin;also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used bythatchers.
   • 1840,“Cottages - Thatching”, inThe Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge:

     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'

6. (architecture,UK,dialect)Aspirerising from atower.
7. A spit-likestarton the head of a youngstag.
8. The stick from whichcandlewicksare suspended for dipping.
9. Thepinin alockwhich enters thebarrelof thekey.

Derived terms

• turnbroach

Translations

series of chisel points

• Hungarian:fémfúró
• Swedish:brotschc

masonry: broad chisel

• Finnish:leveätaltta

brooch—seebrooch

spit—seespit

awl, bodkin

• Bulgarian:шило(bg)n(šilo)
• Finnish:naskali(fi)

architecture: spire—seespire

spit-like start in young stag's head

stick from which candle wicks are suspended

• Finnish:varras(fi)

pin in a lock

Verb

broach(third-person singular simple presentbroaches,present participlebroaching,simple past and past participlebroached)

1. (transitive)To make aholein, especially acaskofliquor,and put in atapin order todrawtheliquid.
   • 1837,Thomas Carlyle,The French Revolution: A History[…],volume(please specify |volume=I to III),London:Chapman and Hall,→OCLC,(please specify the book or page number):

     How often has thebroachedbarrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.

2. (transitive)To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.

   French knights at Agincourt were unable tobroachthe English line.

4. (transitive,figuratively)Tobegindiscussionabout (something).

   Ibroachedthe subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.

   • 1913,D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence,chapter 4, inSons and Lovers,London:Duckworth & Co.[…],→OCLC:

     Yet he was much too much scared ofbroachingany man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.

   • 1918September–November,Edgar Rice Burroughs,“The Land That Time Forgot”,inThe Blue Book Magazine,Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.,→OCLC;republished as chapter VI, inHugo Gernsback,editor,Amazing Stories,(please specify |part=I to III),New York, N.Y.:Experimenter Publishing,1927,→OCLC:

     I have tried on several occasions tobroachthe subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.

   • 1964December, “New Books”, inModern Railways,page429:

     THE POCKET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES.By O. S. Nock.Blandford Press.18s.
     Mr. Nock, he remarks in his preface, was "incredulous" when the idea of this book of 192 colour gravure illustrations of a representative collection of British steam locomotives fromLocomotionto BR'sEvening Starwasbroachedto him.

Derived terms

• abroach
• broachable
• broacher

Related terms

• brochure

Translations

make a hole in

• Bulgarian:пробивам(bg)(probivam),продупчвам(bg)(produpčvam)
• Czech:narazit(cs)pf,otevřít(cs)pf,načítpf
• Dutch:doorboren(nl),aantappen (van een vat)
• Finnish:lävistää(fi)
• French:perforer(fr),percer un tonneau
• Galician:espichar(gl)
• German:anzapfen(de)
• Hungarian:csapra ver,felnyit(hu)
• Spanish:espitar(es)
• Turkish:delmek(tr)

begin discussion about

• Czech:nakousnoutpf,otevřít(cs)pf
• Dutch:ter sprake brengen,aansnijden(nl),aankaarten(nl)(informal)
• Finnish:avatakeskustelu
• French:aborder(fr)
• German:ansprechen(de),aufbringen(de)
• Hungarian:szóba hoz(hu),felhoz(hu),megemlít(hu),megpendít(hu)
• Spanish:sacar a colación(es),plantear(es),sacar a relucir,sacar el tema,traer a colación,colacionar(es)

Etymology 2

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Verb

broach(third-person singular simple presentbroaches,present participlebroaching,simple past and past participlebroached)

1. (intransitive)To beturnedsidewaysto oncomingwaves,especially large orbreakingwaves.

   The small boatbroachedand nearly sank, because of the large waves.

2. (transitive)To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed byto;also figurative).
   • 18th C,Thomas Dibdin,Tom Bowling

     Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling... for death hathbroachedhim to.

   Each time we came around into the wind, the seabroachedour bow.

3. (nautical,intransitive,of a submergedsubmarine,torpedo,or similar)To break the surface of the water.

Translations

to turn sideways to oncoming waves

• Bulgarian:обръщам се напреко на вълните(obrǎštam se napreko na vǎlnite)
• Dutch:kapseizen(nl)
• Finnish:noustatuuleen,broutsata
• Maori:rara

to cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves

• Bulgarian:обръщам напреко на вълните(obrǎštam napreko na vǎlnite)
• Dutch:kapseizen(nl)
• Finnish:nostaatuuleen,broutsata
• Maori:rara

See also

• broach to

Anagrams

• Orbach,Chorba,chorba,brocha

Scots

Alternative forms

• brutch,bruch,broche,brotch

Etymology

FromMiddle Scotsbroche,fromMiddle Englishbroche,fromOld Frenchbroche,fromVulgar Latin*brocca,originally a feminine form ofLatinbroccus;possibly ultimately ofGaulishprovenance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈbrɒtʃ/
• (Southern Scots)IPA^(key):/ˈbrəʊtʃ/

Noun

broach(pluralbroachs)

1. (archaic)Aspindle.
2. (archaic)Aslenderorthinperson (especially as a nickname).