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Breasting
To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
📖 Definitions of "Breasting"
verb
- 1
To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
- 2
To reach the top (of a hill).
"He breasted the hill and saw the town before him."
- 3
To debreast.
noun
- 1
The curved channel in which a breastwheel turns.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Breasting"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| titverb | (transitive or intransitive, obsolete) To strike lightly, tap, pat. |
| bosomverb | To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish. |
| white meatnoun | Meats whose color, either before or after cooking, is considered white as opposed to red, including poultry, seafood, and in some uses, even pork. |
| knockernoun | A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door. |
| boobverb | To behave stupidly; to act like a boob. |
| frontverb | (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction. |
| tittynoun | (slang, vulgar) A breast. |
| breastwheelnoun | A water wheel where the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the floatboards partly by impulse, partly by its weight. |
| breastbeamnoun | Part of a loom. |
| breast drillnoun | A hand-cranked drill that is braced against the breast (chest) and whose axial feed can be provided by pushing or leaning therefrom. |
| forebeamnoun | (nautical) A horizontal spar across the bow of some sailing vessels, used to stabilize the hulls of a catamaran, to secure a bowsprit, or to tie down the tack when there is no bowsprit. |
| heart wheelnoun | (engineering) A form of cam shaped like a heart, used to convert uniform rotary motion into uniform reciprocating motion. |
| beamnoun | A broad smile. |
| chinenoun | The spine of an animal. |
| startnoun | The beginning of an activity. |
| bevel wheelnoun | A wheel forming part of a bevel gear. |
| bull wheelnoun | A type of large windlass used in drilling. |
| headracenoun | The part of a millrace that brings water to the millwheel. |
| steering wheel becketnoun | (nautical) A rope with a becket at one end and a hook at the other, used to hold the ship's wheel (the helm) in fixed position. Normally used in pairs, with the becket on a spoke and the hook on a ring in the deck. |
| brake wheelnoun | An inclined wheel that drives a wallower in a mill. |
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