All 3 Uses of
breech
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Why is the county of Kildare like the leg of a fellow's breeches?†
Chpt 1 *
- So down with your breeches And out with your bum.†
Chpt 1
- He laughed as he heard it for it made him think of McCann, and he saw him a squat figure in a shooting jacket and breeches and with a fair goatee, standing in the wind at Hopkins' corner, and heard him say: —Dedalus, you're an antisocial being, wrapped up in yourself.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(breech) rear
Most commonly used today in the phrase breech birth in reference to a baby who comes out of the birth canal butt-first rather than head-first.More-archaic senses seen in classic literature include:- breechcloth -- a form of loincloth consisting in a strip of material passed between the thighs and held up in front and behind by a belt or string
- breeches -- pants
- a cannon's breech -- the rear of a gun