breech

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.

   “'Lat be,' quod he, ‘it shal nat be, so theech! Thou woldest make me kisse thyn old breech, And swere it were a relik of a seint,”

2. isim The buttocks or backside.

   “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 […]”

3. isim The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
4. isim The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
5. isim A breech birth.
6. zarf With the hips coming out before the head.
7. sıfat Born, or having been born, breech.
8. fiil To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).

   “[…] it occurred before I was breeched, and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;”

9. fiil To beat or spank on the buttocks.
10. fiil To fit or furnish with a breech.

    “to breech a gun”

11. fiil To fasten with breeching.
12. fiil To cover as if with breeches.

    “Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.”