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broach | brach |

As a verb broach

is to broach.

As a noun brach is

curdled milk, sour milk.

broach

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) broche, from

Noun

(es)
  • A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. (rfex)
  • (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
  • A spit for cooking food.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • He turned a broach that had worn a crown.
  • An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
    • (Forby)
  • (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
  • A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
  • The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
    • (Knight)
  • The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
  • To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
    • French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
  • (senseid) (figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
    • I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
  • * 1913 ,
    • 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), Chapter VI
    • I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.
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    Etymology 2

    (en)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
    • The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.
  • To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
  • 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.

    References

    English terms with multiple etymologies

    brach

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (archaic) A hound, especially a female hound used for hunting.
  • * 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vi :
    • Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, / Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
  • *, NYRB 2001, vol.1 p.331:
    • A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach , and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

    See also

    * brachet

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