broach

broach

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Synonyymisanakirja

broach

rintaneula, neula, pinssi, sädekimppu, käsitellä, keskustella, pohtia, ottaa puheeksi, aloittaa, koskea.

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Englannin sanakirja

broach englanniksi

1. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. (rfe)

2. puhekieltä A broad chisel for stone-cutting.

3. (alternative spelling of)

4. 2012, Cara C. Putman, A Promise Born

She pinned a broach on her jacket.
When Viv saw it, she laughed. “Is that the best you can do? A flower broach?”

5. A spit for cooking food.

6. Francis Bacon

He turned a broach that had worn a crown.

7. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.

(rfquotek)

8. puhekieltä A spire rising from a tower.

9. A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.

10. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

11. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

12. puhekieltä To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.

13. 1837 (w), (w)

How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.

14. puhekieltä To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.

French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.

15. (senseid) puhekieltä To begin discussion about (something).

I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.

16. 1913, w:D. H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence, s:Sons_and_Lovers Sons and Lovers, s:Sons and Lovers/Chapter IV|chapter 4

Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.

17. 1918, (w), w:The Land That Time Forgot (novel)|The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.

18. puhekieltä To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.

The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.

19. puhekieltä To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).

20. 18th C, (w), w: Tom Bowling

Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling ... for death hath broached him to.

21. puhekieltä To be overcome or submerged by a wave or surge of water.

Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.

22. puhekieltä A spindle.

23. puhekieltä A slender or thin person (especially as a nickname).

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