breech
noun
the lower, rear part of the trunk of the body; buttocks.
unbreeched
-
a word derived from
breech.
Example Sentences
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"That we will," said I, with as bitter a resolution to impart the instruction as ever schoolmaster did to whip Latin grammar into one of the great unbreeched.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever
The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collector's junior clerk, who at nineteen years was much the elder and graver man of the two.
From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Michael grew up, therefore, as might be expected, a hungry, dirty-faced, unbreeched, long-coated urchin.
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor
He pulled Snap's second Colt from his belt, and unbreeched that.
From Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey
The scholars, unbreeched little rogues, have an advantage over their teacher, and in the playground talk the tongue of the Celt invariably, and may be maligning him for all he knows.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
