abroach
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
美 /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
— on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach
形容词 adj.
- Tapped; broached.
- Astir; moving about.
副词 adv.
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Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
— 1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115, Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […]
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In a state to be diffused or propagated.
— I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […]I do the wrong, and am the first to begin to quarrel. / The secret mischiefs that I set afoot, / I blame on others: […]
词源
词源 1
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
词源 2
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
词源 3
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
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