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breeched, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Wearing or furnished with breeches.
c1550Songs Costume (1849) 85 Proude and paynted parragones And monstrus breched beares. 1866Motley Dutch Rep. Introd. 4 The Romans divided his race respectively into long-haired, breeched, and gowned Gaul (Gallia comata, braccata, togata).
2. Of a gun: Provided with a breech.
1575Gascoigne Weedes Wks. (1587) 185 They [a kind of gun] be..Renforced wel, and breeched like a brock. 1802Hull Advertiser 18 Dec. 3/1 Old Barrels bored and breeched to shoot close and strong.
3. Of a cannon: Secured by a breeching.
1830Marryat King's Own xxii, The guns [are] double-breeched.
4. Thieves' slang. ‘Flush of money’ (J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. 1812). |