Sample Sentences for
breech
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    The hunter cleaned the breech after firing several rounds at the target.
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    The rocket is breech-loaded and a two-person team can fire it six times a minute.
    breech = rear
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    "I'm the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery," said the mule,  (source)
    breech = opening in the rear of the barrel of a cannon where munitions can be loaded
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    A man in a leather coat and breeches led a cow along the road.  (source)
    breeches = pants
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    Do you know what it means when a baby comes breech?†  (source)
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    We're breeched!†  (source)
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    Sure and certain, he thought, as he pulled on his fine velvet breeches and silk stockings.  (source)
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    We have to open her womb and take the baby out, because it is in the breech position.†  (source)
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    It finally slid out of the cart and he snatched it up and opened it and took out the shells and reloaded the pistol and breeched it shut and put the rest of the loads in his pocket.†  (source)
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    I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants.  (source)
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    If I can't quite get the hang of poverty-chastity-and-obedience, I can learn instead about vermifuges, breech deliveries, arrow wounds, gangrene, and elephantiasis.†  (source)
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    He wrote like a father would to a favourite son, Captain Marlow, and I was five-and-twenty years his senior and had tasted salt water before he was fairly breeched.†  (source)
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    Kropp stalks up, with his breeches rolled up and his feet bare.  (source)
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Breech births.  (source)
Breech = Breech birth refers to a child born bottom first.
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