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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



... him with tensely anxious eyes as he broke the breech, looked at the shining circle of ...
— Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • James Oliver Curwood
... her act is reached when the point of a bayonet, 23 1/2 inches long, fastened to the breech of a cannon, is placed in her mouth and the piece discharged; the recoil driving the bayonet suddenly down her throat. The gun is loaded with ...
— The Miracle Mongers, an Expos • Harry Houdini
... A breech-bolt clicked, and then another one. They were little sounds, but they were different, and the guard could hear them plainly. The ...
— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy
... house. This was a long rectangular, one-story building with twenty furnaces arranged, each under an open window, around the sides. In front of each heated furnace with its tray of leaves, a Japanese man, wearing only a breech cloth, and in a state of profuse perspiration, was busy rolling the tea leaves between the palms ...
— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King
... lives at the expense of others, a physician become poisoner, who destroys instead of healing them, and to the pardoner, a rascal of low degree, who bestows heaven at random by his own "heigh power" on whoever will pay, and who manufactures precious relics out of the pieces of his "old breech." Finally there are nuns, reserved, quiet, neat as ermines, who are going to hear on the way enough to scandalise them all the rest of their lives. Among them, Madame Eglantine, the prioress, with her ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand


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