broach

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See also broaçh

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bɹəʊtʃ/, X-SAMPA: /br@UtS/
• (US) IPA: /bɹoʊtʃ/, X-SAMPA: /broUtS/
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ
• Homophone: brooch

Etymology 1

Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Gaelic brog; cognate to brochure.

Noun

broach (plural broaches)

1. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel.
2. Alternative spelling of brooch.

Translations

series of chisel points

• Hungarian: fémfúró (hu)

• Swedish: brotsch (sv) c

brooch — see brooch

Verb

broach (third-person singular simple present broaches, present participle broaching, simple past and past participle broached)

1. (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
2. (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.

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

3. ​ (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

make a hole in

• Bulgarian: пробивам (bg) (probivam), продупчвам (bg) (produpčvam)
• Dutch: doorboren (nl), aantappen (van een vat) (nl)
• French: perforer (fr),percer un tonneau (fr)

• German: anzapfen
• Turkish: delmek (tr)

begin discussion about

• Dutch: aanspreken (nl), ter sprake brengen (nl)
• French: s'adresser à (fr), aborder un sujet (fr)

• German: ansprechen (de), aufbringen (de)

Etymology 2

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Verb

broach (third-person singular simple present broaches, present participle broaching, simple past and past participle broached)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
3. (transitive) To be overcome or submerged by a wave or surge of water.

   Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.

Translations

turn sideways to oncoming waves

• Bulgarian: обръщам се напреко на вятъра (bg) (obrǎštam se napreko na vjatǎra)

• Dutch: kapseizen (nl)

cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves

• Bulgarian: обръщам напреко на вятъра (bg) (obrǎštam napreko na vjatǎra)

• Dutch: kapseizen (nl)
• Maori: rara (mi)
• Maori: rara (mi)