breechless
Americanadjective
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Ordnance. without a breech.
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without breeches or trousers.
Etymology
Origin of breechless
First recorded in 1350–1400, breechless is from the Middle English word breklesse. See breech, -less
Example Sentences
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The captive of the cold complains, His breechless bones it reaches.
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I, Hodge, breechless Swear to Diccon, rechless, By the cross that I shall kiss, To keep his counsel close, And always me to dispose To work that his pleasure is.
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A little breechless boy passed, carrying a lump of stone.
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Not a single one of the words he chucklingly puts into the lips of Jockey and Sawney as characteristically Scoto-Arcadian, was ever heard or seen by the breechless swains of that pastoral realm.
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“Something more than a score, with a piper that’s noisier than the other twenty, led by a breechless ruffian, although I must say he knows what to do with a sword.”
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