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broad

/bɹɔd/ noun C2
  1. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  2. A kind of floodlight.

Plural broads

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Barker shrugged his broad shoulders.
The Valley of Fear, p. 55 · C1
But this one was so broad and deep that the Lion knew at once he could not leap across it.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 41 · B2
“What, is it you, Edmond, back again?” said he, with a broad Marseillaise accent, and a grin that displayed his ivory-white teeth.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 15 · C1
It is remarkably broad; a splay-foot, one would say.
The Valley of Fear, p. 45 · C1

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