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breech

breech (countable and uncountable; plural breeches)

1. (historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]
2. (now rare) The buttocks or backside. [from 16th c.]
   • 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 pamperd Cupids, bestly Venis, / And motly, squinting Harvequinis, / Shall lick no more their Ladys Br—, / But die of Looseness, Claps, or Itch; / Fair Thames from either ecchoing Shoare / Shall hear, and dread my manly Roar.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 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.

3. The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. [from 16th c.]
4. (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
5. A breech birth.

breech

1. Born, or having been born, breech.

breech

1. With the hips coming out before the head.

Definizione dizionario breech

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Altri significati:

The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. [from 16th c.]

(now rare) The buttocks or backside. [from 16th c.]

Born, or having been born, breech.

(historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]

(nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.

With the hips coming out before the head.

A breech birth.