Broach

Broachname詞源 1

• 1

  A surname.

broachnoun詞源 1/bɹəʊtʃ/

• 1

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

• 2

  businessconstructionmanufacturingA broad chisel for stone-cutting.

• 3

  A spit for cooking food.

  • He turned a broach that had worn a crown.
• 4

  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'
• 5

  dialectalarchitectureA spire rising from a tower.

• 6

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

• 7

  The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

• 8

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

broachverb詞源 1/bɹəʊtʃ/

• 1

  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.
• 2

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

  • French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
• 3

  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.

broachverb詞源 2/bɹəʊtʃ/

• 1

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

  • The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  nauticaltransportTo 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.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Bharuch
• brooch