Breech Definition

brēch
breeches
noun
breeches
The lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks.
American Heritage Medicine
A breech presentation or delivery.
American Heritage Medicine
The buttocks; rump.
Webster's New World
A fetus in breech presentation.
American Heritage Medicine
The lower or back part of a thing.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • rear of tube
  • rear of barrel
verb
breeches
To clothe with breeches.
Webster's New World
To provide (a gun) with a breech.
Webster's New World

(dated) To beat or spank on the buttocks.

Wiktionary
To fasten with breeching.
Wiktionary
adverb
With the hips coming out before the head.
Wiktionary
adjective
Born, or having been born, breech.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Breech

Noun

Singular:
breech
Plural:
breeches

Origin of Breech

  • Old English brēċ, plural of *brōc, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Brüch, Swedish brok.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English brech from Old English brēc pl. of brōc leg covering Gaulish brāca hose, trousers

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Breech Sentence Examples

  • The undiagnosed breech was the group most at risk.

  • A version is not appropriate for every fetus who is in the breech position at the end of pregnancy.

  • Until the 9th century the only means for sighting cannon was by the " line of metal " - a line scored_ along the top of the gun, which, owing to the greater thickness of metal at the breech than at the muzzle, was not parallel to the axis.

  • The earliest form of a hind or breech sight was fixed, but in the early part of the 19th century Colonel Thomas Blomefield proposed a movable or tangent sight.

  • It would seem that we took the citadel by breech in 1761.

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Words Starting With

BBRBRE

Words Ending With

HCHECH

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