breechless

American  

[breech-lis] / ˈbritʃ lɪs /

adjective

1. Ordnance. without a breech.

2. without breeches or trousers.

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Etymology

Origin of breechless

First recorded in 1350–1400, breechless is from the Middle English word breklesse. See breech, -less

Example Sentences

A little breechless boy passed, carrying a lump of stone.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

“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.”

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert

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.

From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of

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.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

After three days’ parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a “barker” greeted me with the cheerless message that the “Aguila” was surrounded by man-of-war boats!

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz