breasting

[ bres-ting ]

noun

1. a piece of leather or other material for covering the heel breast of a shoe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of breasting¹

breast + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

We were now merely breasting the current, and driving on a little with the gusts.

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We were now in the open air, breasting a swooping nor'-wester that chilled the very marrow of my bones.

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Three minutes later they were breasting through a low thicket of evergreen.

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For some time the swimmers continued to strike out to sea, breasting over the swell like hundreds of black seals.

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It is thus supposed to typify a young man breasting the stream of life, and thrusting his way through difficulties to success.

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