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Breech
Definitions
- 1 Born, or having been born, breech. not-comparable
- 1 With the hips coming out before the head. not-comparable
- 1 A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. attributive, countable, historical, in-plural, uncountable
"'Lat be,' quod he, ‘it shal nat be, so theech! Thou woldest make me kisse thyn old breech, And swere it were a relik of a seint,"
- 2 opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded wordnet
- 3 The buttocks or backside. archaic, countable, uncountable
"And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on her bare breech twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three dayes, till nine dayes were past […]"
- 4 The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. countable, uncountable
- 5 The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A breech birth. countable, uncountable
- 1 To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony). dated, transitive
"[…] it occurred before I was breeched, and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;"
- 2 To beat or spank on the buttocks. dated, transitive
- 3 To fit or furnish with a breech. transitive
"to breech a gun"
- 4 To fasten with breeching. transitive
- 5 To cover as if with breeches. obsolete, poetic, transitive
"Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore."
Etymology
From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.
From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.
From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.
From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.
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