Definition of breeching Breeching
/bɹiˈʧɪŋ/ - [breeching] - breech•ing
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Wiktionary 
- breeching (Noun)
The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time. - breeching (Noun)
A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney. - breeching (Noun)
A rope used to secure a cannon. - breeching (Noun)
A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- breeching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Breech - breeching (n.)
A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. - breeching (n.)
That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle. - breeching (n.)
A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged. - breeching (n.)
The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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breeching
brague, (from breech) a rope used to secure the cannon of a ship of war, and prevent them from recoiling too much in the time of battle.It is fixed by fastening the middle of it to the hindmost knob or cascabel of the gun, which sailors call the pomiglion, or pummelion; the two ends of it are afterwards inserted through two strong rings on the sides of the carriage, and fastened to other bolts in the ship’s sides.The breeching is of sufficient length to let the muzzle of the cannon come within the ship’s side to be charged.The use of the breeching, as it checks the recoil of the cannon, is shewn in plate III. DECK, where it is expressed by e e, passing through the ring-bolts, f, on the side of the carriage, g, being fastened to the cascabel, h. It is also exhibited in the MIDSHIP-FRAME, where it is employed to lash the cannon when it is housed during the course of a voyage. See the article CANNON.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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breeching
A strong rope passing through at the cascable of a gun, used to secure it to the ship's side, and prevent it recoiling too much in time of battle, also to secure it when the ship labours; it is fixed by reeving it through a thimble stropped upon the cascable or knob at the breech of the gun; one end is rove and clinched, and the other is passed through the ring-bolt in the ship's side, and seized back. The breeching is of sufficient length to let the muzzle of the cannon come within the ship's side to be charged, or to be housed and lashed. Clinch-shackles have superseded the ring-bolts, so that guns may be instantly unshackled and shifted.
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🔤- breeching, verb, gerund of breech (infinitive).
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