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breeching n. 馬的屁股帶,炮索 馬的屁股帶,炮索 Breech \ Breech\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Breeched}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Breeching}.] 1. To put into, or clothe with, breeches. [ 1913 Webster] A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith' s youngest boy was breeched. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cover as with breeches. [ Poetic] [ 1913 Webster] Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To whip on the breech. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To fasten with breeching. [ 1913 Webster]
Breeching \ Breech" ing\, n. 1. A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. [ 1913 Webster] I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. -- Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Naut.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship' s side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged. [ 1913 Webster] 4. The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack. [ 1913 Webster] 47 Moby Thesaurus words for " breeching": back band, backstrap, bearing rein, bellyband, bit, blinders, blinds, bridle, caparison, cavesson, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, cinch, collar, crownband, crupper, curb, gag swivel, girth, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, harness, headgear, headstall, hip straps, jaquima, jerk line, lines, martingale, noseband, pole strap, reins, ribbons, saddle, shaft tug, side check, snaffle, surcingle, tack, tackle, trappings, tug, winker braces, yoke
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