BROACH (Fr. broche, a pointed instrument, Med. Lat. brocca, cf. the Latin adjective brochus or broccus, projecting, used of teeth)

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BROACH (Fr. broche, a pointed instrument, Med. Lat. brocca, cf. the Latin adjective brochus or broccus, projecting, used of teeth) , a word, of which the doublet " brooch " (q.v.) has a

special

SPECIAL

meaning, for many forms of pointed

instruments

INSTRUMENTS

, such as a bodkin, a wooden needle used in tapestry-making, a spit for roasting

meat

MEAT

, and a

tool

TOOL (0. Eng. tdl, generally referred to a root seen in the Goth. taujan, to make, or in the
English
- ENGLISH
word " taw," to work or dress
leather
- LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch
  leer
  - LEER
  or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
- LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL
)

, also called a " rimer," used with a wrench for enlarging or smoothing holes (see

Tool

TOOL (0. Eng. tdl, generally referred to a root seen in the Goth. taujan, to make, or in the
English
- ENGLISH
word " taw," to work or dress
leather
- LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch
  leer
  - LEER
  or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
- LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL
)

,). From the use of a similar

instrument

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

to tap casks, comes " to broach " or " tap " a cask. A particular use in architecture is that of "broach-spire," a

term

TERM

employed to designate a particular form of spire, found only in England, which takes its name from the stone roof of the

lower

LOWER

portion. The stone spire being octagonal and the tower square on plan, there remained four angles to be covered over. This was done with a stone roof of slight pitch, compared with that of the spire, and it is the intersection of this roof with the octagonal `faces of the spire which forms the broach.

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