The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
A bruise; a wound.
A hernia; a rupture.
A breaking out upon; an assault.
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
To break the water, as by leaping out; - said of a whale.
A spit.
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
A broad chisel for stonecutting.
A spire rising from a tower.
A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
A spitlike 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.
To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
To open for the first time, as stores.
To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
To cause to begin or break out.
To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
