breechedadj.
1. Wearing or furnished with breeches.
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breechedc1550
knee-breeched1884
c1550 Songs Costume (1849) 85 Proude and paynted parragones And monstrus breched beares.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic Hist. Introd. ii. 6 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.
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stocked1497
breeched1575
chambered1611
tower-proof1673
triggerless18..
hair-triggered1806
vizyless1828
high-velocity1854
sighted1859
calibred1887
recoilless1888
sham-damn1895
silenced1909
silencered1935
multicalibre1983
1575 G. Gascoigne Weedes in Wks. (1587) 185 They [a kind of gun] be..Renforced wel, and breeched like a brock.
1802 Hull Advertiser 18 Dec. 3/1 Old Barrels bored and breeched to shoot close and strong.
3. Of a cannon: Secured by a breeching.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [adjective] > type of artillery by construction
chamber-bored1669
breeched1830
wire-wound1865
multicharge1883
chase-hooped1886
trunnionless1890
1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. ii. 25 The guns [are] double-breeched.
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