Broached vs Broaches - What's the difference?
broached | broaches |
(broach)
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
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
(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.
The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
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.
(senseid) (figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
* 1913 ,
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking 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.
English terms with multiple etymologies
As verbs the difference between broached and broaches
is that broached is past tense of broach while broaches is third-person singular of broach.As a noun broaches is
plural of broach.broached
English
Verb
(head)broach
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) broche, fromNoun
(es)- He turned a broach that had worn a crown.
- (Forby)
- (Knight)
Verb
(es)- French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
- 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.
- I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.
Etymology 2
(en)Verb
(es)- The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.
- Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.
