Pronunce (2)
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/əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/
Note sulla pronuncia
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əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ
Note sulla pronuncia
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Verbo
To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
Uso- obsoleto
- transitivo
- Esempi
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on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach
Avverbio
Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
Uso- not-comparable
- obsoleto
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Altri esempi (1)
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.
Uso- not-comparable
- obsoleto
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I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […]
Altri esempi (1)
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:
Aggettivo
Tapped; broached.
Uso- not-comparable
Astir; moving about.
Uso- not-comparable
Aggettivo
of a cask or barrel
- Sinonimi
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the cask was set abroach