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Word Meanings - UNBREECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings. Pennant. (more info) 1. To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches. Shak.

Related words: (words related to UNBREECH)

  • DIVESTITURE
    The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
  • DIVESTMENT
    The act of divesting.
  • STRIPPING
    The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • CANNON BONE
    See BONE
  • BREECH-LOADING
    Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
  • CANNONADE
    1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
  • STRIP-LEAF
    Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
  • STRIPLING
    A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
  • STRIPPER
    One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
  • BREECH PIN; BREECH SCREW
    A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
  • BREECHES
    breech, breeches; akin to Icel. brok breeches, ODan. brog, D. broek, G. bruch; cf. L. bracae, braccae, which is of Celtic origin. Cf. 1. A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. His jacket was red, and his breeches were
  • PENNANT
    A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, or long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried
  • BREECH
    The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat. (more info) 1. The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks. 2. Breeches. Shak. 3. The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind
  • CANNONEER; CANNONIER
    A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
  • DIVESTURE
    Divestiture.
  • REMOVER
    One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
  • CANNONED
    Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
  • DIVEST
    See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
  • REMOVED
    1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
  • UNSTRIPED
    Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
  • BEAR'S-BREECH
    See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
  • DEMICANNON
    A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.
  • CANONIC; CANNONICAL
    Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of

 

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