breech

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breech englannista suomeksi

1. patruunapesä

0. Substantiivi

1. lannevaate

2. perä

2. Verbi

breech englanniksi

1. A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. (defdate)

2. late 14th century, Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale, ''The Canterbury Tales'':

(quote)

3. (quote-book) for Young Readers|year=1992|page=57|isbn=0-689-85611-3|passage=The stallion lipped Alanna’s breech pockets. “He’s spoiled rotten.” Fishing a lump of sugar out, she fed it to him.

4. (quote-book)

5. The buttocks or backside. (defdate)

6. {{quote-book|en|year=1624|author=John Smith|title=Generall Historie|publisher=Kupperman|year_published=1988|page=157

7. (quote-text)

8. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)

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

(cot)

10. The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.

11. A birth.

12. With the hips coming out before the head.

13. Born, or having been born, breech.

14. To dress in breeches. (qualifier) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).

15. 1748-1832, Jeremy Bentham, ''The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10'':

(..) it occurred before I was breeched, and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;

16. (RQ:Macaulay History of England) anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched.

17. To beat or spank on the buttocks.

18. To fit or furnish with a breech.

(co)

19. To fasten with breeching.

20. To cover as if with breeches.

21. (RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)