breech vs party

breech

noun
  • 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. 

adv
  • With the hips coming out before the head. 

adj
  • Born, or having been born, breech. 

verb
  • To fit or furnish with a breech. 

  • To fasten with breeching. 

party

noun
  • With to: an accessory, someone who takes part. 

  • A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity. 

  • A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose. 

  • A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government. 

  • A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. 

  • A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose. 

  • A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them. 

  • A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing. 

  • A small group of birds or mammals. 

verb
  • To form a party (with). 

  • To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself. 

  • To take recreational drugs. 

  • To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats. 

adj
  • Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them. 

  • Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries. 

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