Breech

Quick meaning: Breech is a noun meaning (now rare) The buttocks or backside.

Meaning

(now rare) The buttocks or backside.

More Meanings

1. (firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
2. (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
3. (obstetrics) A breech birth.
4. (obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.
5. (obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.
6. (historical, now only in the plural or attributive) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
7. (dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).

Example Sentences

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

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

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

'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,

Word Forms

• breeches
• breeching
• breeched

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