abroach
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abroach
- /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/ US
Rhymes with -əʊtʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
verb abroaches · abroaching · abroached
- To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach
adverb
- 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, an
- 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: […]
adjective
- Tapped; broached.
- Astir; moving about.
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adj tapped
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