abroach

adverb

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Pronunciation: /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/

Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.

Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.

Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
“1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115, Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […]”
“[…] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.”
In a state to be diffused or propagated.
“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:”

Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.

To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
“on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach”