breech vs tame

breech

adj
  • Born, or having been born, breech. 

adv
  • With the hips coming out before the head. 

verb
  • To fit or furnish with a breech. 

  • To fasten with breeching. 

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. 

tame

adj
  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated. 

  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. 

  • Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. 

  • Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme. 

  • Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. 

  • Not exciting. 

verb
  • To make gentle or meek. 

  • To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. 

  • To become tame or domesticated. 

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