Found 2 items, similar to Breeching.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: breech breech n : opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded [syn: rear of barrel, rear of tube]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Breeching Breech \Breech\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breeched; p. pr. & vb. n. Breeching.] 1. To put into, or clothe with, breeches. [1913 Webster] A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover as with breeches. [Poetic] [1913 Webster] Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun. [1913 Webster] 4. To whip on the breech. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Had not a courteous serving man conveyed me away, whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my conscience, he would have breeched me. --Old Play. [1913 Webster] 5. To fasten with breeching. [1913 Webster] Breeching \Breech"ing\, n. 1. A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. [1913 Webster] I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. --Marlowe. [1913 Webster] 2. That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle. [1913 Webster] 3. (Naut.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged. [1913 Webster] 4. The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack. [1913 Webster]