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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
