breasting

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breasting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Breast \Breast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Breasting.]
     To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose
     manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
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           The court breasted the popular current by sustaining
           the demurrer.                            --Wirt.
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     To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so
        as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.
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  Breasting \Breast"ing\, n. (Mach.)
     The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is
     closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a
     quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the
     water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See
     Breast wheel.
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