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To cover or clothe with, or as with, breeches; to put (a boy) into breeches. †to breech it (obsolete): to serve as breeches.
transitive. To dress (a person) in trousers; to provide with trousers. Chiefly reflexive. Cf. earlier trousering, n. 1.
(transitive) to dress in bloomers; also figurative.