abroach
/əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
Obsolete
adj
Example Sentences
- "on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach"
- "1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115, Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […]"
- "[…] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers."
- "I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […]"
- "1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64, When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:"
Etymology
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/