broach

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

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
4. A spit for cooking food.
5. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
6. A spire rising from a tower.
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.

Verb

1. To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
2. To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
3. To begin discussion about (something).

Verb

1. To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
2. To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
3. To break the surface of the water.

Sinônimos

tap

bore

sink

brooch

strike

drill

breastpin

pierce

prick

cut into

clasp

break into

puncture

initiate

spit

prong

introduce

lance

meet

moot

open

pin

prod

propose

punch

👊

quarry

raise

reel

review

riddle

safety pin

🧷

spear

spire

spool

stave

sting

thrust

uncork

wimble

cash affect concern

hit draw

stave in

touch feel

cut and carry off

begin to talk

terebrate

pull broach

broaching bit

broaching tool

draw knife

scraping out cutter

abut

nerve broach

adjoin

awl

bodkin

break

break the ice

bring down

broaching

circular

come across

cotter

cut

do

drum

🥁

encounter

internal

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/bɹəʊtʃ/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: broche

Cognato com gaélico escocês: bròg

In summary

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; cognate to brochure).