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noun

Breeching n.

A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. "I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy."

That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.

(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.

The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

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"Breeching" Quotes from Famous Books

... Chieftain had forgotten much about pedigree, but he had learned many other things. He had come to know the precise moment when, in easing a heavy load down an incline, it was safe to slacken away on the breeching and trot gently. He could tell, merely by glancing at a rise in the roadway, whether a slow, steady pull was needed, or if the time had come to stick in his toe-calks and throw all of his two thousand pounds on the collar. He had learned not to fret himself into a lather about strange noises, and ...

— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford

... up a cry that brought about him all who could reel thither, Griggs staggering out of his cabin and to the nettings. The sight sobered him somewhat, for he immediately shouted orders to cast loose the guns, himself tearing the breeching from the nine-pounder next him and taking out the tompion. About half the crew were in a liquorish stupor from which the trump itself could scarce have aroused them; the rest responded with savage oaths, swore that they would boil their suppers ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill