3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breech \Breech\, n. [See {Breeches}.]
1. The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
2. Breeches. [Obs.] --Shak.
3. The hinder part of anything esp., the part of a cannon,
or other firearm, behind the chamber.
4. (Naut.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of
which is called the throat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breech \Breech\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Breeched}; p. pr & vb n.
{Breeching}.]
1. To put into or clothe with breeches.
A great man . . . anxious to know whether the
blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. --Macaulay.
2. To cover as with breeches. [Poetic]
Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. --Shak.
3. To fit or furnish with a breech; as to breech a gun.
4. To whip on the breech. [Obs.]
Had not a courteous serving man conveyed me away
whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my
conscience, he would have breeched me --Old Play.
5. To fasten with breeching.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
breech
n : where bullets are loaded [syn: {rear of barrel}, {rear of
tube}]
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