I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point.
--Shak.
2. To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor.
Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He
bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. --Shak.
3. To open for the first time, as stores.
You shall want neither weapons, victuals, nor aid; I
will open the old armories, I will broach my store,
and will bring forth my stores. --Knolles.
4. To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth;
to introduce as a topic of conversation.
Those very opinions themselves had broached.
--Swift.
5. To cause to begin or break out. [Obs.] --Shak.
6. (Masonry) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by
chiseling with a coarse tool. [Scot. & North of Eng.]
7. To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
{To broach to} (Naut.), to incline suddenly to windward, so
as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the
danger of oversetting.