BROACHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broached mean? 

• BROACHED (adjective)
  The adjective BROACHED has 1 sense:

1. of a cask or barrel

  Familiarity information: BROACHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROACHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a cask or barrel

Synonyms:

abroach; broached

Context example:

the cask was set abroach

Similar:

tapped (in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug)

 Context examples 

When I was an A B master mariner I'd have come up alongside of him, hand over hand, and broached him to in a brace of old shakes, I would; but now— And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I waited a few moments, expecting he would go on with the subject first broached: but he seemed to have entered another train of reflection: his look denoted abstraction from me and my business.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It seems to me, at this distance of time, as if it were the next day when Peggotty broached the striking and adventurous proposition I am about to mention; but it was probably about two months afterwards.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was ruffled next moment, to be sure, by a doubt of Miss Murdstone's giving her consent; but even that was set at rest soon, for she came out to take an evening grope in the store-closet while we were yet in conversation, and Peggotty, with a boldness that amazed me, broached the topic on the spot.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)