From en.wiktionary.org:
[breach]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [nl], [gsw]<!-- sic,
not ü -->, [sv]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~] <!--when is it uncountable?-->
1. [en] A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]
2. * LATE 14TH CENTURY , 吴语: Geoffrey Chaucer , The Pardoner's Tale, _The Canterbury Tales (see https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22120/22120-h/22120-h.htm) _ :
3. *: [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. [en] The buttocks or backside . [from 16th c.]
8. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1624 | author=John Smith | title=Generall Historie | publisher=Kupperman | year_published=1988 | page=157
|passage=And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on
her bare BREECH twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three
dayes, till nine dayes were past [...]}}
1. * [en]
2. * [III]
3. [en] The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. [from 16th c.]
4. [en] The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
5. [en] A breech birth .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[Garment that clothes the buttocks]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
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[buttocks, backside]
- German: [de] , [de]
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[part of a cannon or other firearm]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese: [zh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
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[birth]
- Czech: [cs]
- German: [de]
- Spanish: [es]
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*** Adverb
[-]
1. [en] With the hip s coming out before the head .
**** Derived terms
- [en]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Born, or having been born, breech .
**** Translations
[Born, or having been born, breech]
- Tagalog: [tl]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To dress in breeches . [especially] To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
2. * 1748-1832 , Jeremy Bentham, _The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10_ :
3. *: [...] it occurred before I was BREECHED , and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
4. * [chapter=10]
5. [en] To beat or spank on the buttock s.
6. [en] To fit or furnish with a breech.
7. [en] To fasten with breeching .
8. [en] To cover as if with breeches .
9. * [II]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, or noun _breech_
|breech birth |rod for one's own breech }}
**** Translations
[to dress in breeches]
- German: [de]
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*** See also
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [breeches]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]