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Breech   /britʃ/   Listen
noun
Breech  n.  
1.
The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
2.
Breeches. (Obs.)
3.
The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.
4.
(Naut.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.


verb
Breech  v. t.  (past & past part. breeched; pres. part. breeching)  
1.
To put into, or clothe with, breeches. "A great man... anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched."
2.
To cover as with breeches. (Poetic) "Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore."
3.
To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.
4.
To whip on the breech. (Obs.) "Had not a courteous serving man conveyed me away, whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my conscience, he would have breeched me."
5.
To fasten with breeching.





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"Breech" Quotes from Famous Books



... Morgan struck with the butt of his gun, and the Indian hurled his tomahawk at one and the same moment. Both blows took effect; and both of the combatants were at once wounded and disarmed. The breech of the rifle was broken against the Indian's skull, and the edge of the tomahawk was shattered against the barrel of the rifle, having first cut off two of the fingers of Morgan's left hand. The Indian then attempting to ...
— Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman
... "for men to be eaten;" chibil, the passive of chii, to eat. The Diccionario de Motul gives chibil bak, flesh to be eaten. Pic was the breech cloth or waist cloth, fastened around the waist and falling to the knees, which was the common dress of the women. The Dictionary just quoted translates the word, "naguas de Indias que se sirven de saya o faldellin ordinario, para cubrir desde la cintura abajo; y son las ...
— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various
... matter of clothes." He grinned again. "We'll want a breech clout, at least. I propose that we get the sheerest silk gauze we can find, and cut an eighth-inch square apiece to tie about our middles ...
— The Raid on the Termites • Paul Ernst
... invention of gunpowder was achieved, and an enormous transformation took place in the whole terrible art. The musket, the rifle, the pistol, the cannon were one by one evolved, to develop in the nineteenth century into the breech-loader, the machine gun, the bomb, and the multitude of devices fitted to bring about death and destruction by wholesale, instead of by the ...
— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall
... breech-bolt clicked, and then another one. They were little sounds, but they were different, and the guard could hear them plainly. The galloping horse ...
— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy


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