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Breeching.


1. (Ordnance.) A rope secured by a thimble to the breeching-loop of a ship's gun, and attached by its ends to ring-bolts on each side of the port-hole, serving to limit the recoil of the gun when fired.

The breeching-loop occupies the place of the ordinary cascabel.


2. (Harness.) The portion which comes behind the buttocks of a horse, and enables him to hold back the vehicle in descending a hill.

3. A bifurcated smoke-pipe of a furnace or heater.

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