Meanings of sometimes broad in English

His early growth was in rough soil, and some of the mud stuck to him,-hisjests were sometimes broad.

They also wore coils of brass wire, girdles of small silver coins, and sometimes broad belts of brass ring-armour.

I must do them the justice, however, to add, that though their raillery will be sometimes broad enough, it is never verbally indelicate.

Sometimes broad currents would descend from one extremity to the other, and then go up again, while a heavy mass remained motionless in the centre.