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Broach
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.
(5):
(n.) A spire rising from a tower.
(6):
(n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
(7):
(n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
(8):
(n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
(9):
(n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
(10):
(n.) A spit.
(11):
(n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
(12):
(n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
(13):
(n.) To open for the first time, as stores.
(14):
(n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
(15):
(n.) To cause to begin or break out.
(16):
(n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
(17):
(n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Broach'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/broach.html. 1828.
