English Dictionary

breech

/bɹiːt͡ʃ/

noun

(historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. / (now rare) The buttocks or backside.

The soldier wore a breech-loading rifle.

意味（1）

(historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.

意味（2）

(now rare) The buttocks or backside.

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 […]

意味（3）

(firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.

Coordinate term: muzzle

意味（4）

(nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.

意味（5）

(obstetrics) A breech birth.