breech vs nates

breech

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

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

• A breech birth. 

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

• With the hips coming out before the head. 

• Born, or having been born, breech. 

• To fit or furnish with a breech. 

• To fasten with breeching. 

nates

• The buttocks. 

• The umbones of a bivalve shell. 

• The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.