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broached

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of a cask or barrel; "the cask was set abroach" [syn: abroach ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broach \Broach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Broached ; p. pr. & vb. n. Broaching .] [F. brocher, fr. broche. See Broach , n.] To spit; to pierce as with a spit. I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. --Shak. To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: broach )

Usage examples of broached.

For the greater part of a week, Turn Around Norman had gone on with the show, exhibiting not the slightest indication that the intruder had broached his interior shell.

Well past dawn, with the cookfire lit, and Fionn Areth beside him, he broached the sensitive discussion concerning the uncanny difficulties ahead.

Still others lolled at ease, their surcoats unlaced, passing the dregs of broached spirits between them.

Like a torrent bursting through a broached dam, the Warden dispatched sequential images unveiling the full course of events.

Another step down the tunnel unfolded the burgeoning tension as Arithon sought to recover the broached grace of his privacy.

The first of the mighty beluga sturgeon had just broached the stream when he gave the word.

But as they passed beyond the ridge east of the cave, the radiant gleam of the rising sun broached the horizon, illuminating the broad plain of standing hay below with an intense golden glow.

Jondalar was still recovering from the mauling that same lion, or his mate, had given him earlier when he and his brother had foolishly broached their den.

Finally, unable to resist the inexorable pressures of the advancing river, they were finally broached, but the obdurate bedrock yielded reluctantly.

The river, unable to climb the northern highlands, had made a sharp turn and broached the ridge to reach the sea.

The old man was grinning apishly and he blinked away the water, watching the death throes of the leviathan as it dived and broached, dived again.

Pyra Quadde set her course back toward land, moving northerly, hoping to pick up one of the mighty schools of whales that broached and sunned themselves off the deserted coves.