breech vs hollow

breech

verb
  • To fasten with breeching. 

  • To fit or furnish with a breech. 

noun
  • The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. 

  • A breech birth. 

  • A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. 

  • The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat. 

adj
  • Born, or having been born, breech. 

adv
  • With the hips coming out before the head. 

hollow

verb
  • to make a hole in something; to excavate 

  • To call or urge by shouting; to hollo. 

noun
  • A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. 

  • A sunken area. 

  • A small valley between mountains. 

  • A feeling of emptiness. 

adv
  • Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow. 

adj
  • Concave; gaunt; sunken. 

  • Insincere, devoid of validity; specious. 

  • Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched. 

  • Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. 

  • Pertaining to hollow body position 

  • Having an empty space or cavity inside. 

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