It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.
A breeching for the wheeler, entirely useless on the level, is indispensable for journeys through a hilly country.
In tandem harness there should be as little harness as possible, evenbreeching omitted, except in a very hilly country.
The breeching is, or ought to be, considered indispensable in a hilly country, even with light vehicles, and is a proper precaution in all cases where women or children act as coachman.
In these days, when even light carriages have brakes, breeching is seldom used except with state or very dressy harness.
The breeching should hang about twelve inches below the upper part of the dock, and have four to six inches' play when the horse is in his collar.
Additional breeching on the non-recoil system, or security for guns in heavy weather.
Also, the lug of the cascable is cut open to admit of the bight of the breeching falling into it, thus obviating the loss of time by unreeving.
This was effected by securing the breeching while the gun was run out: often practised in small vessels.
The breeching is of sufficient length to let the muzzle of the cannon come within the ship's side to be charged, or to be housed and lashed.
We had made shoulder straps, hip straps, breast straps and breeching as the correct idea for a harness.
There were no saddles but blankets enough to make a soft seat, and they proposed to put a band or belt around the animals for them to hold on by, and the blankets would be retained in place by breast and breeching straps which we had made.
Then both cinches should be tightened, and the breeching and breast straps properly adjusted.
It was not so much the discrepancy of the breeching as its respectability that jarred upon me; finally I commented upon it to Croppy.
Wherein lay the moral support of a breeching in such a contingency it is hard to say.
The dissertation in which the Dean's venerable coachman made the entire disaster hinge upon the theft of the breeching was able, but cannot conveniently be here set down.
The breeching for this should be very strong and broad, and the belt well stuffed, and stitched like a mattress.
As soon as he had entered the street, however, the wind blew right behind them, and when he pulled up, old Diamond had so much ado to stop the cab against it, that the breeching broke.
There was another halt while thebreeching underwent temporary repairs.
After a while, however, the harnessing was accomplished somehow and in some way, although whether the breeching was where the bridle should have been or vice versa was more than the harnesser would have dared swear.
Vent and breeching must be gas tight by sealing with asbestos or thermo-setting pressure sensitive tape.
Many naval guns of the period are characterized by a hole in the cascabel, through which the breeching tackle was run to check recoil.
The French, for instance, at one time used different shapes of cascabels to denote certain calibers; and even a fancy cascabel shaped like a lion's head was always a handy place for anchoring breeching tackle or maneuvering lines.
Punched by the wagon-tongue or tripped by the trace chains, when the breeching was fractured on a down grade, the exposures to rupture or fracture were incessant, with no experts in attendance to splice the splints.
This unconsumed fuel settling in portions of the setting out of the direct path of the gases will have a tendency to ignite provided any air reaches it, with results harmful to the setting and breeching connection.
His Fowling Pieces are bored upon a system, and the interior of the breeching made upon such an improved plan, as to throw small shot stronger and closer than has ever before been accomplished.
The breast and breeching bands were brought around against each animal's breast and hips, and the place where they should be attached on the near side was marked with a pencil.
I'll go ahead and sew the breeching and the breast straps on one side, anyhow, and after we get up the animals, we can fit them.
Hugh's job seemed to be over, though one end of each band of the breeching and the breast straps was still free from the saddle.
Really, to make good breeching we ought to have it so that it can be shortened up or lengthened out, and so that it will fit any animal that the saddle is put on.
There's less danger, of course, of the breeching slipping down, because it will catch on the animal's hocks.
Still, I think I'll try and see if I can find a couple of cruppers for these other saddles, and then we can tie the supports for the breeching to the crupper band, midway of where it runs back from the saddle.
A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck.
One side of the drugget, which was completely covered with snow, had been blown back, the breeching had slipped down and the snow-covered head with its waving forelock and mane were now more visible.
From the ends of the breeching other straps (h) attach to what would be the back cinch ring (k).
Her hand lay upon the breeching of the gun beside us; small and very white it was, ornamented with a ring of ancient setting and workmanship.
We had only a short time, but Mademoiselle and I went out upon the bastion and stood by the breeching of one of the cannon, looking out to sea.
Breeching with shackle-bolts and pins |At the gun.
The Breeching is always to be shackled to the Ship's side--not to the Slide, which needlessly strains the pivoting, and also causes the shackle with its appliances to interfere with the working parts at the forward end of the Slide.
A breeching and a couple of tackles, if the guns should be fired on skids.
The 2d Captain passes the old breeching amidships, and the men resume their usual duties at the gun.
A thimble is to be turned into the other end, so that the length of the breeching may be conveniently altered.
The Gun Captain then directs the Handspikemen, or if the screw is used, the 2d Captain, to raise the breech so as to level the gun and bring all parts of the tackles and breeching taut.
