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How to pronounce “breech”
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Pronunciation guide for breech
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of breech with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Martin Villeneuve: How I made an impossible film 10 minutes, 56 seconds
I welded the breech, but the valve is still gaping.
- Definition summary
- (historical, now only in the plural or attributive) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]
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How to pronounce breech
Martin Villeneuve: How I made an impossible film 10 minutes, 56 seconds
I welded the breech, but the valve is still gaping.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “breech”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (historical, now only in the plural or attributive) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]
- (now rare) The buttocks or backside. [from 16th c.]
- (firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. [from 16th c.]
- (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
- (obstetrics) A breech birth.
- [Adverb]
- (obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.
- [Adjective]
- (obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.
- [Verb]
- (dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
- (dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
- (transitive) To fit or furnish with a breech.
- (transitive) To fasten with breeching.
- (poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
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