All 4 Uses of
breech
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful in these great drainpipes.
Chpt 2breeches = pants
- Kropp stalks up, with his breeches rolled up and his feet bare.
Chpt 3 *
- It was a wonderful picture: Himmelstoss on the ground; Haie bending over him with a fiendish grin and his mouth open with bloodlust, Himmelstoss's head on his knees; then the convulsed striped drawers, the knock knees, executing at every blow most original movements in the lowered breeches, and towering over them like a woodcutter the indefatigable Tjaden.
Chpt 3
- The black, worn breeches are just as much too short; they reach barely halfway down his calf.
Chpt 7
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