ppl. a. Also 6 broched. [f. BROACH v.1 + -ED.]

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  1.  Pierced, tapped, set running.

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1633.  Ford, Broken Hrt., v. ii. It [the blood] sparkles like a lusty wine new broach’d.

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1652.  Benlowes, Theoph., II. lxii. Each broached Vein.

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1847.  Disraeli, Tancred, IV. xii. Oxen roasted whole, and broached hogsheads.

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  2.  Set on foot, started, introduced.

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1547.  Homilies, I. Contention, I. (1859), 134. He is of the new sort … he is a new-broached brother.

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1548.  Hall, Chron. (1809), 457. Thys broched and begonne enterprice.

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1612.  T. Taylor, Comm. Titus i. 2. New broached novelties.

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1789.  Gouv. Morris, in Sparks, Life & Writ. (1832), I. 315. The business now broached.

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  3.  Of stone: Chiselled with a ‘broach.’

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1625.  Minutes of Town Council, in Hist. Glasgow, xxi. (1881), 181. The stane work thairof to be small brotchet work.

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1876.  Gwilt, Archit., 1236.

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1880.  Archaeol. Aeliana, VIII. 157. The murus would be built … with broached stones at Ouseburn, and plain stones elsewhere.

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