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

plural of breech

(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

simple past tense and past participle of breech

Dressed in breeches.

Wearing breeches.

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

(obstetrics) Born, or having been born, 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.