Breech

"Breech" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Last time I had a breech delivery.

A breech birth means that the baby is born buttocks or feet first.

'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,

The stallion lipped Alanna’s breech pockets. “He’s spoiled rotten.” Fishing a lump of sugar out, she fed it to him.

The typical American combat soldier in World War I wore an olive-drab tunic, stiff at the neck, breech-style trousers, and combat shoes with canvas leggings or, preferably, wrappings.

He reached into his breech pockets. They were huge, but well-tailored and disguised properly within the folds of the pants.

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 […]

When pamper'd Cupids, bestly Veni's, / And motly, squinting Harvequini's, / Shall lick no more their Lady's Br—, / But die of Looseness, Claps, or Itch; / Fair Thames from either ecchoing Shoare / Shall hear, and dread my manly Roar.

"Oho!" says Thwackum, "you will not! then I will have it out of your br—h;" that being the place to which he always applied for information on every doubtful occasion.

[…] it occurred before I was breeched, and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;

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A great man […] anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched.

to breech a gun

Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.

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