Breeching vs. Breaching: What's the Difference?

Breeching and Breaching Definitions
Breeching
The strap of a harness that passes behind a draft animal's haunches.
Breaching
An opening, tear, or rupture.
Breeching
The short wool or hair on the rump and hind legs of a sheep, goat, or dog.
Breaching
A gap or rift, especially in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.
Breeching
The parts of a gun that make up the breech.
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Breaching
A violation or infraction, as of a contract, law, legal obligation, or promise.
Breeching
A rope formerly used to secure the breech of a cannon to the side of a ship to control the recoil.
Breaching
A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.
Breeching
(historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
Breaching
A leap of a whale from the water.
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Breeching
A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
Breaching
The breaking of waves or surf.
Breeching
(nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
Breaching
To make a hole or gap in; break through.
Breeching
(equestrian) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
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Breaching
To break or violate (an agreement, for example).
Breeching
(slang) A beating or flogging.
Breaching
To leap from the water
Waiting for the whale to breach.
Breeching
A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech.
I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes,Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy.
Breaching
To develop a hole or opening. Used especially of protective embankments
The rising river caused the levee to breach.
Breeching
That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.
Breaching
Present participle of breach
Breeching
A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.
Breaching
The act by which something is breached.
Breachings of decorum
Breeching
The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.