different between letting vs abroach

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?t??/
• Hyphenation: let?ting
• Rhymes: -?t??

Verb

letting

1. present participle of let

Noun

letting (plural lettings)

1. (Britain) The rental of accommodation.
2. (US, dated) The award of a public contract

Anagrams

• ettling, glitten

English

Etymology

From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- +? broach.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?o?t??/
• Rhymes: -??t?

Verb

abroach (third-person singular simple present abroaches, present participle abroaching, simple past and past participle abroached)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
   • 1633, George Herbert, The Agonie

     on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach

Adverb

abroach (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
   • 1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115,^[1]

     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 […]

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume 3, Chapter 11, p. 285,^[2]

     […] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.

2. (obsolete) In a state to be diffused or propagated. [First attested in the early 16^th century.]

   Synonyms: afoot, astir

   • 1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64,^[3]

     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:

Adjective

abroach (not comparable)

1. Tapped; broached. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
2. Astir; moving about. [First attested in the early 16^th century.]

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