Breeched

ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED¹.]

  1.  Wearing or furnished with breeches.

c. 1550.  Songs Costume (1849), 85. Proude and paynted parragones And monstrus breched beares.

1866.  Motley, Dutch Rep., Introd. 4. The Romans divided his race respectively into long-haired, breeched, and gowned Gaul (Gallia comata, braccata, togata).

  2.  Of a gun: Provided with a breech.

1575.  Gascoigne, Weedes, Wks. (1587), 185. They [a kind of gun] be … Renforced wel, and breeched like a brock.

1802.  Hull Advertiser, 18 Dec., 3/1. Old Barrels bored and breeched to shoot close and strong.

  3.  Of a cannon: Secured by a breeching.

1830.  Marryat, King’s Own, xxii. The guns [are] double-breeched.

  4.  Thieves’ slang. ‘Flush of money’ (J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., 1812).