'Breeching' definitions:
Definition of 'Breeching'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Breeching'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'breeching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- back band,
- backstrap,
- bearing rein,
- bellyband,
- bit,
- blinders,
- blinds,
- bridle,
- caparison,
- cavesson,
- checkrein,
- cheekpiece,
- chinband,
- cinch,
- collar,
- crownband,
- crupper,
- curb,
- gag swivel,
- girth,
- hackamore,
- halter,
- hames,
- hametugs,
- harness,
- headgear,
- headstall,
- hip straps,
- jaquima,
- jerk line,
- lines,
- martingale,
- noseband,
- pole strap,
- reins,
- ribbons,
- saddle,
- shaft tug,
- side check,
- snaffle,
- surcingle,
- tack,
- tackle,
- trappings,
- tug,
- winker braces,
- yoke
Words containing 'Breeching'
- Breech,
- Breeched,
- Breeches,
- Breech action,
- Breech pin,
- Breech plug,
- Breech screw,
- Breech sight,
- Breeches buoy,
- Breeches pipe,
- Dutchman's breeches,
- Knee breeches,
- To wear the breeches,
- bear's breech,
- bear's breeches,
- breech birth,
- breech closer,
- breech delivery,
- breech presentation,
- frank breech,
- jodhpur breeches,
- riding breeches,
- Bear's-breech,
- Breech-loading,
- Dutchman's-breeches,
- bear's-breeches,
- breeched pantalooned trousered,
- frank breech delivery,
- too big for one's breeches