Also 6 broching(e. [f. BROACH v.1 + -ING1.]
1. Piercing, spitting; tapping (a cask), etc.
1611. Cotgr., Afforage … wine … paied upon the broaching of euery vessell retailed.
1615. Markham, Eng. Housew., II. ii. (1668), 69. The spitting and broaching of meat.
2. Introduction, mooting, origination of opinions.
1577. Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619), 355. Continuall arguing, and broching of intricate quirks.
1600. Dekker, Gentle Craft, i. (1862), 10. He sets more discord of a noble house By one day’s broaching in his pickthank tales, Than can be salved again in twenty years.
1835. Wordsw., Lett. to B. Montagu, 1 June. The first broaching of the Reform Bill.
3. The first liquor run from a cask on tapping it.
1659. Gauden, Fun. Serm. Bp. Brownrig (1660), 143. The first broachings of a vessel.
1662. Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 171. His mother did not carelessly cast away his youth (as the first broachings of a vessel).
4. The chiselling of stone with a broach.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., § 1914. If broaching is performed without droving … it is never so regular.
1880. Archaeol. Aeliana, VIII. 285. The broaching or crosshatching and other conventionalities of the Romans.
5. Comb. broaching-bit (see quot.); broaching-thurmal, -thurmer, -turner, a chisel for ‘broaching’ stone.
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Broaching-bit, a tool used to restore the dimensions of a bore-hole which has been contracted by the swelling of the marl or clay walls.
