Sekirov Dictionary

abroach

/əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/

adjective 2
adverb 2
verb 1
forms 3

adjective2

Tapped; broached.
Astir; moving about.

adverb2

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(no longer used) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
- […] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers. — 1820
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(no longer used) 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: […] — 1593

verb1

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(no longer used) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
- on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach — 1633

forms

abroached · abroaching · abroaches

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