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What is the difference between broached and abroach?

broached | abroach |

As verbs the difference between broached and abroach

is that broached is (broach) while abroach is {{context|transitive|obsolete|lang=en}} to set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

As a adverb abroach is

broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped {{defdate|first attested from around (1350 to 1470)}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =8| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.

As a adjective abroach is

tapped; broached {{defdate|first attested from around (1350 to 1470)}}.

broached

English

Verb

(head)
  • (broach)

    • 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.

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    English terms with multiple etymologies

    abroach

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
  • * Hogsheads of ale were set abroach . -
  • In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.
  • * Mischiefs that I set abroach . - Shakespeare, Richard III, I-iii

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Tapped; broached.
  • Astir; moving about.

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