noun plural.
A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
noun plural.
Trousers; pantaloons.
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in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines.
noun plural.
a forked pipe forming two branches united at one end.
noun plural.
breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smallclothes.
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to usurp the authority of the husband; -- said of a wife.