Word Meanings - BREASTBONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bone of the breast; the sternum.

• Breastplough
  A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
• Breastrail
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• Breastrope
  See Breastband.
• Breastsummer
  A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.
• Breastwheel
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on th
• Breastwork
  A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• Breast-deep
  Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.
• Breastheight
  The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing.

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