These are the meanings of the letters ABROCHO when you unscramble them.
- Broach (n.)
A broad chisel for stonecutting.
- Broach (n.)
A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
- Broach (n.)
A spire rising from a tower.
- Broach (n.)
A spit.
- Broach (n.)
A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
- Broach (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.
- Broach (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.
- Broach (n.)
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- Broach (n.)
The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- Broach (n.)
The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- Broach (n.)
To cause to begin or break out.
- Broach (n.)
To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
- Broach (n.)
To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
- Broach (n.)
To open for the first time, as stores.
- Broach (n.)
To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
- Broach (n.)
To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
- Broach (n.)
To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
- Brooch (imp. & p. p.)
To adorn as with a brooch.
- Brooch (n.)
A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
- Brooch (n.)
An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.