Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word BREECH

BREECH

Definitions of BREECH

(historical, now onlyin the plural or attributive) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]
(nowrare) The buttocks or backside. [from 16th c.]
(firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. [from 16th c.]
(nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
(obstetrics) A breech birth.
(obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.
(obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.
(dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
(dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
(transitive) To fit or furnish with a breech.
(transitive) To fasten with breeching.
(poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.