These are the meanings of the letters ABROCHE when you unscramble them.
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Breach (n.)
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
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Breach (n.)
A breaking out upon; an assault.
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Breach (n.)
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
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Breach (n.)
A bruise; a wound.
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Breach (n.)
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.
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Breach (n.)
A hernia; a rupture.
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Breach (n.)
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.
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Breach (n.)
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
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Breach (v. i.)
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
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Breach (v. t.)
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
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Broach (n.)
A broad chisel for stonecutting.
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Broach (n.)
A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
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Broach (n.)
A spire rising from a tower.
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Broach (n.)
A spit.
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Broach (n.)
A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
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Broach (n.)
A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
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Broach (n.)
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.
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Broach (n.)
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
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Broach (n.)
The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
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Broach (n.)
The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
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Broach (n.)
To cause to begin or break out.
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Broach (n.)
To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
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Broach (n.)
To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
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Broach (n.)
To open for the first time, as stores.
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Broach (n.)
To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
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Broach (n.)
To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
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Broach (n.)
To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
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Broche (a.)
Woven with a figure; as, broche goods.
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Broche (n.)
See Broach, n.
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Chorea (n.)
St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
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Ochrea (n.)
A greave or legging.
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Ochrea (n.)
A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.
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Orache (n.)
A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface.