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# breech

«breech» in Mova's school dictionary: **the back end, where the shell or bullet is loaded** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (breeches for the old plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The breech of a gun is the back end, where the shell or bullet is loaded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breech/#m1)

2) (old use) A breech is an old form of breeches, short trousers. In old stories «Cinder-breech» is a rude name for a dirty, ragged servant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breech/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories, a rude name for a dirty servant; in gun talk, the back end of a gun

### examples

- "Thou art in the right of it," they replied, "it would make people laugh to see a Cinder-breech at a ball." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breech/#x1)
- "I'm the breech-piece mule of number two gun," said the mule. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breech/#x2)
- The soldiers cleaned the breech of the gun before firing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breech/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «breech» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breech/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.