turnbroach
nounEtymology From turn + broach.
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Obsolete A turnspit.
- Has not a deputy married his cook-maid? An alderman's widow, one that was her turnbroach?c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i: