- an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- a spit for roasting meat.
- a gimlet for tapping casks.
- (in a lock) a pin receiving the barrel of a key.
- an octagonal spire rising directly from a tower without any intervening feature.
- a pointed tool for the rough dressing of stone.
- brooch.
- to enlarge and finish with a broach.
- to mention or suggest for the first time: to broach a subject.
- to draw (beer, liquor, etc.), as by tapping: to broach beer from a keg.
- to tap or pierce.
- to shape or dress (a block of stone).
- (of a sailing vessel) to veer to windward.
- to break the surface of water; rise from the sea, as a fish or a submarine.
- to initiate (a topic) for discussion
- to tap or pierce (a container) to draw off (a liquid)
- to open in order to begin to use
- to break the surface of the water
- to enlarge and finish (a hole) by reaming
- a long tapered toothed cutting tool for enlarging holes
- a spit for roasting meat, etc
- a roof covering the corner triangle on the top of a square tower having an octagonal spire
- a pin, forming part of some types of lock, that registers in the hollow bore of a key
- a tool used for tapping casks
- a less common spelling of brooch
- to cause (a sailing vessel) to swerve sharply and dangerously or (of a sailing vessel) to swerve sharply and dangerously in a following sea, so as to be broadside to the waves
