'Breasting' definitions:
Definition of 'Breasting'
From: GCIDE
- Breast \Breast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breasting.] To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. [1913 Webster]
- The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. --Wirt. [1913 Webster]
- To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Breasting'
From: GCIDE
- Breasting \Breast"ing\, n. (Mach.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Breasting'
- Breast,
- Breasted,
- Breast drill,
- Breast pang,
- Broken breast,
- To breast up a hedge,
- breast cancer,
- breast feeding,
- breast implant,
- breast of lamb,
- breast of veal,
- breast pocket,
- breast wheel,
- chicken breast,
- chimney breast,
- pigeon breast,
- robin breast,
- Breast-deep,
- Breast-high,
- Chicken-breasted,
- Chimney-breast,
- Double-breasted,
- Pigeon-breasted,
- Single-breasted,
- Sweet-breasted,
- To make a clean breast,
- bare-breasted,
- breast-fed,
- cystic breast disease,
- fibrocystic breast disease,
- fibrocystic disease of the breast,
- make a clean breast of,
- black-breasted flycatcher,
- black-breasted plover,
- double-breasted jacket,
- double-breasted suit,
- lilac-breasted roller,
- orange-breasted thrust,
- red-breasted merganser,
- red-breasted nuthatch,
- red-breasted sapsucker,
- red-breasted snipe,
- scarlet-breasted parrot,
- single-breasted jacket,
- single-breasted suit,
- white-breasted nuthatch,
- yellow-breasted bunting,
- yellow-breasted chat,
- yellow-breasted marten