breech

[US]/briːtʃ/
[UK]/britʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the back part of a gun barrel; the part of the body below the waist and above the legs
Word Forms
Third Person Singularbreeches
Past Tensebreeched
Pluralbreeches
Present Participlebreeching

Phrases & Collocations

breech birth

breech presentation

Example Sentences

breech delivery (=breech birth)

The basic forms of jacket, vest, and breeches developed slowly.

He was dressed in a dark-green frock coat, breeches of the colour of the cuisse de nymphe effrayée, as he called it, stockings and slippers.

Fears of tightness in the products markets bolstered the crude oil with Gasoil in Europe leading the way breeching stellar levels over $1,200 dollars per tonne.

The earliest muzzle-loading rifles were more difficult to load than smoothbore muskets, but the invention of metallic cartridges made possible the development of breech-loading mechanisms.

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