Definitions for broaches

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broaches broach

Spelling: [brohch]

IPA: /broʊtʃ/

Broaches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 451 anagrams from letters in broaches (abcehors).

Definitions for broaches

noun

1. Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
2. a spit for roasting meat.
3. a gimlet for tapping casks.
4. (in a lock) a pin receiving the barrel of a key.
5. Also, broach spire. Architecture. an octagonal spire rising directly from a tower without any intervening feature.
6. Masonry. a pointed tool for the rough dressing of stone.
7. brooch.

verb (used with object)

1. to enlarge and finish with a broach.
2. to mention or suggest for the first time:
3. to draw (beer, liquor, etc.), as by tapping:
4. to tap or pierce.
5. Masonry. to shape or dress (a block of stone).

verb (used without object)

1. Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to veer to windward.
2. to break the surface of water; rise from the sea, as a fish or a submarine.

Origin of broaches

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English broche Anglo-French, Old French Vulgar Latin *brocca spike, horn, tap of a cask (Medieval Latin broca), noun use of feminine of Latin adj. brocc(h)us projecti

Examples for broaches

CEO Mark Thompson for his advice on how she should broach the subject with Baquet and try to get his assent.

Some of his supporters remain so passionate that the subject can be difficult to broach.

It is as easy to broach in mixed companies what is called "the subject of religion."

What say ye if we run back with a fair wind and broach that anker of Nants?'

The thought that had seized him was agony, and he could not broach it at once.

He was not timid, however, and resolved to broach the subject.

Now as always, Republicans need bipartisan cover to broach the subject of serious budget cutting.

White was unafraid to broach the notion that life is not only mysterious but sometimes completely inexplicable.

How should he broach the matter which, moreover, did not concern him?

Woven into the very fabric of its characters, Masters uses sex to broach bigger topics.