Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BROACH

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Definitions of BROACH

1. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
2. A spit for cooking food.
3. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
4. A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
5. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
6. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
7. (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
8. Alternative spelling of brooch.
9. (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
10. (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
11. (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
12. (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
13. (intransitive) To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
14. (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
15. (nautical, intransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water.
16. Former name of Bharuch, India.
17. A surname.

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Examples of Using BROACH in a Sentence

• He also wrote the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probability Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award (which Smith personally created) for best libertarian science fiction novel.
• The west tower, crowned with a graceful broach spire rising to , was completed about 1270, after which the chancel was rebuilt and given the east window twenty years later.
• If the ship is flying a Spinnaker and it loses steering, the boat will most likely broach (head up into wind), which will, on most boats, cause a capsize in heavy weather.
• Saint John's Anglican Church, an 1862 Gothic Revival bluestone church, designed by William Wardell, dominates the skyline of Toorak, with a large tower including a peal of bells and a distinctive sandstone broach spire.
• In rotary broaching, the broach is rotated and pressed into the workpiece to cut an axisymmetric shape.
• Concerned about Young's response, Schuessler and other Debian developers decided to broach the idea of a "social contract" that would supplement Debian's initial manifesto written by Ian Murdock.
• Nanna, Bell, and Atkinson formed the more melodic Hey Mercedes, while Broach would dedicate more time to The Firebird Band which was previously a side project.
• There is what remains of a Cross of ashlar, that comprises two square steps under a chamfered plinth, on which stands an octagonal cross-base, chamfered on top, with broach stops occupying the corners of the square.
• A boat that has deployed a drogue should not overspeed down the slope of a wave and crash into the next one, nor will the vessel broach.
• They broach the subject of Hella, about whom Giovanni is not worried, but who reveals the Italian's misogynistic prejudices about women and the need for men to dominate them.
• ; brochure : from French brochure "a stitched work," from brocher "to stitch" (sheets together), from Old French brochier "to prick, jab, pierce," from broche "pointed tool, awl", ultimately from the same Gaulish root as "broach".
• He liked the "beautiful interlocking" guitar lines, which he wrote were "fused together with yelled/sung boyish vocals" from Broach and Nanna.
• The music video for the "Filmstar", in black and white, was directed by Zowie Broach, and features the band in a typical live concert setting.
• The university has since awarded honorary fellowships to artist David McKee, Toby Gorniak MBE, filmmaker Bela Tarr, Pablo Helguera, curator Anne Barlow, Jo Arscott, ceramic artist Clare Twomey, Professor Penny Hay, artist George Shaw, Zowie Broach, artist Kurt Jackson, Peter Jenkinson OBE, Sir John Sorrell CBE and Lady Frances Sorrell OBE, and Sir Nicholas Serota and Richard Deacon CBE, Mike Westbrook OBE, musician, as well as photographer Suki Dhanda and former Director of Plymouth Arts Centre Bernard Samuels, and more.
• The sudden weight loss of the two torpedoes caused U-9 to broach the surface and Hogues gunners opened fire without effect before the submarine could submerge again.
• The sudden weight loss of the two torpedoes caused U-9 to broach the surface and Hogues gunners opened fire without effect before the submarine could submerge again.
• He constructed rest-houses, gardens and tanks at Bharukachchha (Broach), Dashapura (Mandasor in Malva), Govardhana (near Nasik) and Shorparaga (Sopara in the Thana district).
• In the first novel in the series, The Probability Broach, a gorilla, Olongo Featherstone-Haugh (pronounced "Fanshaw"), is mentioned as having served as the largely ceremonial Vice-President of the NAC.
• The sudden weight loss of the two torpedoes caused U-9 to broach the surface and Hogues gunners opened fire without effect before the submarine could submerge again.
• Rural (35): Ahmedabad (2), Broach, Kaira (2), Panch Mahals, Surat (2), Thana (2), Ahmednagar (2), East Khandesh (3), Nasik (2), Poona (2), Satara (3), Belgaum (2), Bijapur, Dharwar (2), Kanara, Ratnagiri (2), Eastern Sind, Western Sind, Sholapur, Kolaba, West Khandesh.

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