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Breasting. World English Historical Dictionary

Breasting. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Breasting vbl. sb. [f. BREAST sb. and v. + -ING1.]

1   1.  a. The action of confronting or opposing with the breast, of ascending the breast of a slope, etc. b. concr. A covering for the breast, breastwork.

2 1817.  Southey, Morte Arth., I. Introd. 60. ‘The French,’ says the chronicler of Pero Nino … ‘arm the horses with head pieces and breastings of leather.’

3 1836.  Landor, Lett. Conserv., 76. The current of evil is only to be stemmed by the united weight and breasting of the people.

4 1870.  Daily News, 7 Dec., 6/4. Its flanking fire would have prohibited the breasting of the slope toward Villiers.

5   2.  techn. The curved channel in which a breast water-wheel works.

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