Căutare în Webster - Dicționarul explicativ al limbii engleze

Pentru căutare rapidă introduceți minim 3 litere.

 

BREECH - Definiția din dicționar

Traducere: română


Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.

Breech (br&ē;ch or brĭch; 277), n. [See Breeches.] 1. The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
[1913 Webster]

2. Breeches. [Obs.] Shak.
[1913 Webster]

3. The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Naut.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
[1913 Webster]

 

Breech, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breeched (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Breeching (&unr_;).] 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]