to breech
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9.9
- verb
- Archaic
:
vestir de pantalones cortos
- They've breeched the gate!
Examples
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His own father, Bartholomeus the apothecary, had died when Jan was still a child, scarcely breeched.
Academic text (1999) -
He was back in his own coat and breeches again, sturdy and well-made, if plain.
Fiction book (1991) -
We break into the two units, we hit the smaller one first... then we scale the fence, enter from the south... use an acetylene blowtorch to breech the warehouse from the back.
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They've breeched the gate!
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Doctors Brenda and Sandra are helping a struggling cow deliver her breeched calf, which they believe is already dead.
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Baby's breeched backward.
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I learned how to stitch up a bleeding wound... load and fire a shotgun... reach into the womb of a heavin' sow to deliver a breeched piglet.
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The man himself was dressed like a gallant, with silken hose, a soft crimson sash, gold epaulets on the shoulders of his soft blue coat, a fancy sword knot, and breeches the color of butter.
Fiction book (1994) -
In an old tradition, parents often breeched their sons when they turned five years old.
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At the ceremony, the boy was finally breeched, marking his transition into boyhood.
Synonyms
Dressed in trousers instead of children's clothes to show growing up
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.7
A birth when a baby comes out feet or bottom first instead of head first
- Specialized
1
7.1
A birth when the baby comes feet or bottom first instead of head first
- Specialized
1
6.3
The position of a baby in the womb with feet or bottom coming out first instead of the head
- Specialized
A metal block that opens and closes the rear of a gun to allow loading a cartridge
- Specialized
A baby before birth with its bottom nearest the birth canal and legs straight up near the head
Surface Forms
Etymology
Breech as a verb comes from the noun breeches, meaning 'trousers'; to 'breech' a boy was to put him into his first trousers. That is why being 'breeched' marked a child's move from baby clothes to older children's clothes.