[f. BREACH + -Y3.]
1. Of horses and cattle: Apt to break fences, and get out of inclosures.
1800. Addison, Amer. Law Rep., 258. McKinney’s horses were breachy.
1810. Nat. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 628/2. I never saw a breachy Tunis sheep.
1838. Haliburton, Clockm., I. 141. They are the most breachy of the two and ought to go to pound themselves.
2. Characterized by breaches.
