Breechen

Quick meaning: Breechen is a noun meaning (historical) A rope used to limit the recoil of a cannon on a ship.

Meaning

(historical) A rope used to limit the recoil of a cannon on a ship.

Example Sentences

The breechen kept pressure back off the horse's hind quarters when they braked — the horses were very aware of this and paid close attention to its functioning.

Mounted on lumbering wooden carriages they were hampered with cumbersome harness of breechen and strong side-tackles for running them out. Guns and carriages, together with the long rammers and shorter lintstocks lodged in loops overhead—all these, as customary, were painted black; and the heavy hempen breechens, tarred to the same tint, wore the like livery of the undertakers.

Word Forms

• breechens

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include breeching, breech, brace, brail, bridle, becket.

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