Abroach

Quick meaning: Abroach is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

More Meanings

1. Tapped; broached.
2. Astir; moving about.
3. (obsolete) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
4. (obsolete) In a state to be diffused or propagated.

Example Sentences

on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach

[…] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.

I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […]

1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64, When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:

Word Forms

• abroaches
• abroaching
• abroached

Synonyms for abroach

Depending on context, synonyms include afoot, astir, broached, tapped.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tapped, broached, abrade, abstrude, abduce, abraid.

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