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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



... cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... warrior was indeed Silvertip. But how changed! Stripped of the blanket he had worn at the settlement, now standing naked but for his buckskin breech-cloth, with his perfectly proportioned form disclosed in all its sinewy beauty, and on his swarthy, evil face an expression of savage scorn, he surely looked ...
— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey
... ground she caught the rash youth broad-handed from cheek to back of the ear, and he stumbled over a pile of wheat sheaves and fell headlong. As he had dropped his shotgun, she picked it up and with her thumb on the safety, her finger on the trigger, and her left hand on the breech, showed him how a $125 shotgun looks in the hands of one who could and would use it ...
— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears
... was a little dock with a thatched lodge in the rear of it and a few cords of wood stacked upon its end. There were some natives here—Indians probably,—with dark skins bared from head to foot; they wore only the breech-clout, and this of the briefest. Evidently they ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard
... are rifle breech-loaders, London maker, Flint Locks, silver mounted, with English coat of arms on butt; the sash was cut up; Dr. Strong has a piece; it ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine


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