Usually means: Transition from boyhood to manhood.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word breeching:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. breeching: Merriam-Webster
  2. breeching: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breeching: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breeching: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breeching: Wordnik
  6. breeching: Wiktionary
  7. breeching: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. breeching: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. breeching: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Breeching, breeching: Dictionary.com
  11. Breeching (boys), Breeching (disambiguation), Breeching (tack), Breeching: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Breeching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. breeching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Breeching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. breeching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. breeching: FreeDictionary.org
  17. breeching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breeching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breeching: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (breeching)

noun:  (historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
noun:  A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
noun:  (nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
noun:  (equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
noun:  (slang) A beating or flogging.

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