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Meanings of
breeching
in English
Spanish
breeching
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Occasion when a small boy was first dressed in breeches or trousers.
unbreeched
Related terms
rite of passage
Spanish
breeching
Usage of
breeching
in English
1
This first
breeching
is an event that papa desires and mamma dreads.
2
The stationary
breeching
,
which prevents recoil, was not in use at this time.
3
He wants the whip; ought to have had it regularly from his first
breeching
.
4
Spongers return rammer and sponge to place, and assist in securing lashings and
breeching
.
5
With a
breeching
,
the piece may be fired as if on an ordinary carriage.
6
In the harness of society they are
breeching
-
straps
,
good for nothing but to hold back.
7
A
breeching
and a couple of tackles, if the guns should be fired on skids.
8
Adam looked down at the nearest eighteen-pounders, lined up behind their ports,
breeching
ropes taut.
9
Whatever the saddle chosen, it should be supplied with breast-straps,
breeching
,
and two good cinches.
10
When the gun is not in to a taut
breeching
,
the 2d Captain ships the Roller Handspike.
11
It has a leathern breast-strap,
breeching
,
and lash-strap, with a broad hair girth fastened in the Mexican fashion.
12
The gun captain was talking quietly with two of his crew, and another was loosening the
breeching
rope.
13
How about that piece of
breeching
!
14
He is taken from grammar-school half coddled, and can hardly shake off his dreams of
breeching
in a twelvemonth.
15
Two
breeching
side-shackles and pins.
16
Don't break yore
breeching
,
Dan.
Other examples for "breeching"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
breeching
breech
Verb
Present
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
taut breeching
first breeching
keep the breeching
stationary breeching
yore breeching
Translations for
breeching
Spanish
breeching
Breeching
through the time