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

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

“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

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

The captive of the cold complains, His breechless bones it reaches.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various

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

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