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Beech vs Breech - What's the difference?

beech | breech |

As nouns the difference between beech and breech

is that beech is a tree of the genus fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves and many branches while breech is .

As an adverb breech is

with the hips coming out before the head.

As an adjective breech is

born, or having been born, breech.

As a verb breech is

(dated|transitive) to dress in breeches (especially) to dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.

beech

English

(wikipedia beech) (Fagus)

Noun

(es)
  • A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves and many branches.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}
  • The wood of the beech tree.

    • Synonyms

    * beech tree

    Derived terms

    * *

    breech

    English

    Noun

  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 157:
    • 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 [...].
  • * 1736 , Alexander Pope, Bounce to Fop :
    • 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.
  • * 1749 , , Book III ch viii
  • *:"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.
  • The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
  • (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
  • A breech birth.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • With the hips coming out before the head.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Born, or having been born, breech.

    • Derived terms

    * breech birth * rod for one's own breech

    Verb

  • (dated) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.
  • * 1748-1832 , Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10 :
    • it occurred before I was breeched , and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
  • * Macaulay
    • A great man anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched .
  • (dated) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
  • To fit or furnish with a breech.
    • to breech a gun
  • To fasten with breeching.
  • (poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.

    See also

    * breeches