breech, rear of barrel, rear of tube
(noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded
Source: WordNet® 3.1
breech (countable and uncountable, plural breeches)
(historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]
(now rare) The buttocks or backside. [from 16th c.]
The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. [from 16th c.]
(nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
A breech birth.
breech (not comparable)
With the hips coming out before the head.
breech (not comparable)
Born, or having been born, breech.
breech (third-person singular simple present breeches, present participle breeching, simple past and past participle breeched)
(dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.
(dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
(transitive) To fit or furnish with a breech.
(transitive) To fasten with breeching.
(poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
• Becher
Source: Wiktionary
Breech, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
