Breech - What does it mean?
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* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 157:
* 1736 , Alexander Pope, Bounce to Fop :
* 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.
With the hips coming out before the head.
Born, or having been born, breech.
(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 :
* Macaulay
(dated) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
To fit or furnish with a breech.
To fasten with breeching.
(poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
* Shakespeare
The difference between breech and is:
breech
English
Noun
- 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.
Adverb
(-)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* breech birth * rod for one's own breechVerb
- it occurred before I was breeched , and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
- A great man anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched .
- to breech a gun
- Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.