broach

broach

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1. avennin

Synonyymisanakirja: broach

broach

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

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Riimisanakirja: broach

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Käännökset: broach

broach suomeksi

ottaa puheeksi, rintaneula

broach englanniksi

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

• puhekieltä A broad chisel for stone-cutting.

• (alternative spelling of)

• 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?”

• A spit for cooking food.

• Francis Bacon

He turned a broach that had worn a crown.

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

(rfquotek)

• puhekieltä A spire rising from a tower.

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

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

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

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

• 1837 (w), (w)

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 18th C, (w), w: Tom Bowling

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

• 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.

• puhekieltä A spindle.

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

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