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unbreech en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + breech.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove the breeches of.
   • Looking on the lines Of my boy's face, my thoughts I did recoil Twenty-three years; and saw myself unbreech'd c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
2. (transitive) To free the breech of (a cannon etc.) from its fastenings or coverings.
   • She was overladen with guns , some were unbreeched , and her port - holes left open 1801, Thomas Pennant, A journey from London to the Isle of Wight:

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