Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove breeches from.
- To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.
- transitive verb (Gun.) To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove the
breeches of; todivest orstrip of breeches. - verb military, transitive To
free the breech of (acannon etc.) from itsfastenings orcoverings .
Etymologies
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un- + breech
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Examples
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I scorn for to do, or to say, or to think any thing that mought give unbreech to Mr Loyd, without furder occasion —
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Then cried out Osberne: "What! Thou wouldst unbreech me, wouldst thou?
The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865
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But in such wise that thou take sword and shield and I a bunch of birch twigs; and if I catch thee not and unbreech thee and whip thee as a grammar-master his scholar, then will I lay down sword and shield forever. "
The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865
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