Broach

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
2. isim A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
3. isim Alternative spelling of brooch.

   “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. isim A spit for cooking food.

   “He turned a broach that had worn a crown.”

5. isim 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. isim A spire rising from a tower.
7. isim A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
8. isim The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
9. isim The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
10. fiil To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.

    “How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.”

11. fiil To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.

    “French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.”

12. fiil To begin discussion about (something).

    “I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.”

13. fiil To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.

    “The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.”

14. fiil To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).

    “Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.”

15. fiil To break the surface of the water.

    “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.”

16. özel isim A surname.
17. özel isim Obsolete form of Bharuch.