broach

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɹəʊtʃ/    美 /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
  2. A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
  3. Alternative spelling of brooch. alt-of,alternative
    — Mr. S. had a large straw hat, and striped jacket and trousers, and his shirt fastened at the throat by a broach with Carry's hair, for he was always quite above wearing a neckcloth.
  4. A spit for cooking food.
    — He turned a broach that had worn a crown.
  5. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
    — It [the straw] is laid on to a considerable thickness and firmly secured by ropes or twisted straw, and pinned down by sharpened sticks called 'broaches'
  6. A spire rising from a tower. UK,dialectal
  7. A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
  8. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
  9. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
动词 v.
  1. To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid. transitive
    — How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.
  2. To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves. intransitive
    — The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.
  3. To open, to make an opening into; to pierce. transitive
    — French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
  4. To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative). transitive
    — 18th C, Thomas Dibdin, Tom Bowling Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling ... for death hath broached him to.
  5. To begin discussion about (something). figuratively,transitive
    — I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
  6. To break the surface of the water. intransitive
    — The Politovskiy soared through the surface of the Atlantic like a broaching whale, coming three quarters of her length out of the water before crashing back.

词形变化

broaches plural broaches present,singular,third-person broaching participle,present broached participle,past broached past broaches present,singular,third-person broaching participle,present broached participle,past broached past

词汇关系

衍生词
turnbroach abroach broachable broacher
相关词
boring bit drill bit brochure broach to

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *brokkos
Gaulish *brokkosbor.?
Vulgar Latin broccus
Vulgar Latin brocca
Old French brochebor.
Middle English broche
English broach
From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure.
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