broach
broach is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A spit. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A spit.
- noun. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- noun. A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
- noun. A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
- noun. A broad chisel for stonecutting.
- noun. A spire rising from a tower.
- noun. A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
- noun. A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
- noun. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- noun. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- noun. To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
- noun. To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
- noun. To open for the first time, as stores.
- noun. To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
- noun. To cause to begin or break out.
- noun. To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
- noun. To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
- noun. a decorative pin worn by women
- verb. bring up a topic for discussion
Synonyms
Common word forms
broached, broacher, broaches, broaching
Words from these letters
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