abroach means tapped; broached. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
abroach is pronounced /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/.
Etymology
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
adj
- Tapped; broached.
- Astir; moving about.
adv
- 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”
- 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: […]”
verb
- To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.“on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach”