Broach

1. To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
2. To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
3. To open for the first time, as stores.
4. To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
5. To cause to begin or break out.
6. (Masonry) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
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.