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Abroach   Listen
verb
Abroach  v. t.  To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. (Obs.)


adverb
Abroach  adv.  
1.
Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. "Hogsheads of ale were set abroach."
2.
Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. "Mischiefs that I set abroach."





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"Abroach" Quotes from Famous Books



... shalt buy thy rashness with thy death, And rue too late thy over bold attempts; For with this sword, this instrument of death, That hath been drenched in my foe-men's blood, I'll separate thy body from they head, And set that coward blood of thine abroach. ...
— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]
... away a sufficiency to kindle a good rousing fire in the hold; and over these, as soon as we had deposited them in a suitable position, as well as over those remaining in the locker, we poured a few buckets of tar from a cask we found abroach on deck. ...
— For Treasure Bound • Harry Collingwood
... to kindle a good rousing fire in the hold; and over these, as soon as we had deposited them in a suitable position, as well as over those remaining in the locker, we poured a few buckets of tar from a cask we found abroach on deck. ...
— For Treasure Bound • Harry Collingwood
... the external barrier, the space within presented a scene not easily reconciled with the cause of the assemblage. In one place cooks were toiling to roast huge oxen, and fat sheep; in another, hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers. Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. The naked Saxon serf was drowning ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... here arraign'd, That with presumption impious and accurs'd, Thou hast usurp'd God's high prerogative, Making thy fellow mortal's life and death Wait on thy moody and diseased passions; That with a violent and untimely steel Hath set abroach the blood that should have ebbed In calm and natural current: to sum all In one wild name—a name the pale air freezes at, And every cheek of man sinks in with horror— Thou art a cold and midnight murderer." ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell


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