n. 后膛, 臀部

vt. 给...装上炮尾, 给...穿上裤子

[医] 臀

[ noun ]
opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded
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Breech \Breech\ (br[=e]ch or br[i^]ch; 277), n. [See
{Breeches}.]
1. The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

2. Breeches. [Obs.] --Shak.

3. The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon,
or other firearm, behind the chamber.

4. (Naut.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of
which is called the throat.


Breech \Breech\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Breeched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Breeching}.]
1. To put into, or clothe with, breeches.

A great man . . . anxious to know whether the
blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. --Macaulay.

2. To cover as with breeches. [Poetic]

Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. --Shak.

3. To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.

4. To whip on the breech. [Obs.]

Had not a courteous serving man conveyed me away,
whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my
conscience, he would have breeched me. --Old Play.

5. To fasten with breeching.