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ˈbreaching, vbl. n.
[f. breach v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of making a breach in, or of breaking through (a wall, etc.): also attrib.
1803Wellington Let. in Gurw. Disp. II. 479 If the wall should be so bad as not to require breaching. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 317 The subsequent breaching of the Spanish fortresses. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. iv. iii. 417 The breaching artillery consisted of forty-three guns. 1878Macm. Mag. Jan. 252/1 The breaching of tanks from excessive rain.
2. See quot., and cf. breach n. 6 and v. 3.
a1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 294/2 Other habits of this whale, such as ‘breaching’, or leaping clear out of the water and falling back again on its side. 1885Longm. Mag. 407. |