Meaning of Breech | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
   attributive, countable, historical, in-plural, uncountable
2. The buttocks or backside.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
3. The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
   countable, uncountable
4. The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
   countable, uncountable
5. A breech birth.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“'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.”

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