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broached, ppl. a.|brəʊtʃt|
Also 6 broched.
[f. broach v.1 + -ed.]
1. Pierced, tapped, set running.
1633Ford Broken Hrt. v. ii, It [the blood] sparkles like a lusty wine new broach'd. 1652Benlowes Theoph. ii. lxii, Each broached Vein. 1847Disraeli Tancred iv. xii, Oxen roasted whole, and broached hogsheads.
2. Set on foot, started, introduced.
1547Homilies i. Contention i. (1859) 134 He is of the new sort..he is a new-broached brother. 1548Hall Chron. (1809) 457 Thys broched and begonne enterprice. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 2 New broached novelties. 1789Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) I. 315 The business now broached.
3. Of stone: Chiselled with a ‘broach’.
1625Minutes of Town Council in Hist. Glasgow xxi. (1881) 181 The stane work thairof to be small brotchet work. 1876Gwilt Archit. 1236. 1880 Archaeol. Aeliana VIII. 157 The murus would be built..with broached stones at Ouseburn, and plain stones elsewhere. |