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breech (n.)
1.the side of an object that is opposite its front"his room was toward the rear of the hotel"
2.opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded
3.(old)the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on"he deserves a good kick in the butt" "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
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Merriam Webster
BreechBreech (brēch or brĭch; 277), n. [See Breeches.]
1. The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
2. Breeches. [Obs.] Shak.
3. The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.
4. (Naut.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
BreechBreech, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breeched (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Breeching (�).]
1. To put into, or clothe with, breeches.
A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. Macaulay.
2. To cover as with breeches. [Poetic]
Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. Shak.
3. To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.
4. To whip on the breech. [Obs.]
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.
5. To fasten with breeching.
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⇨ definición de breech (Wikipedia)
breech (n.)
back, back end, back part, backside, behind, bottom, buttocks, posterior, rear, rear end, rear of barrel, rear of tube, rear side, rump, seat
breech (n.) (old)
arse, backside, behind, bottom, buns, butt, buttock, buttocks, can, derriere, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, ass (coarse, American), bum (colloquial, British), fanny (colloquial, American)
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