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Breech birth(health)

breech(2) (iou)



breech verb trans. LME.
[from the noun.]
Cover or clothe with, or as with, breeches; arch. put (a boy) into breeches instead of petticoats. LME.
R. L. Stevenson Before he was breeched, he might have clambered on the boxes. fig.: Shakespeare Macbeth Their daggers Unmannerly breech'd with gore.
Flog. L16-E19.
Nautical. Secure (a cannon etc.) by a breeching. L16.