(historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time. / A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney. / (nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.

plural of breeching

A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. / (informal) Trousers; pantaloons.

plural of breech

(dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony). / (dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.

(historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. / (now rare) The buttocks or backside.

(obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.

(obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.

Dressed in breeches.

simple past tense and past participle of breech