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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

A breech birth refers to a child born bottom first. A less common sense of breech refers to the lower part of a pulley block.

It was a difficult breech birth.

breech = rear (in this case indicating that the baby came out of the birth canal butt-first)

The rocket is breech-loaded and a two-person team can fire it six times a minute.

breech = rear

A man in a leather coat and breeches led a cow along the road.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

breeches = pants

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.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

breeches = pants

"I'm the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery," said the mule,
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

breech = opening in the rear of the barrel of a cannon where munitions can be loaded

Kropp stalks up, with his breeches rolled up and his feet bare.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

breeches = pants

In the far corner of the square the Negroes and Mr. Dolphus Raymond stood up and dusted their breeches.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

breeches = pants

When I went back for my breeches— they were all in a tangle when I was gettin' out of 'em, I couldn't get 'em loose.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

breeches = pants

"Then you might have a thought for somebody else!" snapped Nat, slapping the water out of his dripping breeches.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

breeches = pants

The black, worn breeches are just as much too short; they reach barely halfway down his calf.
Erich Maria Remarque -- 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.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
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.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
I stopped, and, picking a cartridge from my pocket, I opened the breech of my gun.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Lost World
You dragon, you make me laugh till I shake me and burst the stitches of my breeches.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
He got hold of his belt and managed to get his breeches back on.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
At your age a rod to your breech were fitter than a sword in your fist, ha!
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
Then lo! from the other direction came riding the stout chief, in the fur cap and the riding breeches, surrounded by his counsellors.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
When he emerged, dripping, into the lighted room, he found a towel, a fine linen shirt, and a pair of breeches.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
He was oiling the breech action of a gun.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
Dick snapped the cartridge breech open savagely, then hurled the gun away.
Thomas Wolfe -- The Child by Tiger

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