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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Broach \Broach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Broached}; p. pr & vb n. {Broaching}.] [F. brocher, fr broche. See {Broach}, n.] 1. To spit; to pierce as with a spit. I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. --Shak. 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. --Shak. 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. --Knolles. 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. --Swift. 5. To cause to begin or break out [Obs.] --Shak. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: broached adj : of a cask or barrel; "the cask was set abroach" [syn: {abroach}]
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