Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As high as the breast.
- As high as the breast; specifically, in lumbering, having a height of 4½ feet above the ground.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective High as the breast.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb up to the breast
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Examples
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The rising water had forced the ice up till it stood breast-high above the island like a wall.
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Lady Flashman, scenting mischief breast-high, had also fixed her bonny blue gimlets on the suspect, seen him drop red counters on his paper after coups had been called, and heard Levett mutter, ` By jove, it is too hot! '
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Blue sky, green trees, and sunlit turf appeared through the opening, which was breast-high.
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Blue sky, green trees, and sunlit turf appeared through the opening, which was breast-high.
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For a moment perhaps I stood there, breast-high in the almost boiling water, dumbfounded at my position, hopeless of escape.
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And nobody has yet been able to explain her breast-high waist that only seems to exist on one side of her body.
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I will, therefore, submit to circumstances, and tell you the whole story, though somewhat tedious, in hopes that I can conclude with such a trail as you will open upon breast-high.
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In the second place, the road to this dungeon is fenced off with ropes breast-high, and outside those ropes all the English in the place who have lately been sea-sick and are now well, assemble in their best clothes to enjoy the degradation of their dilapidated fellow-creatures.
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As we were making our way, cautiously and toilsomely, over the pulverised embers, one of my people sank into the earth breast-high.
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Air and light reach the damp den within, either through the upper half of the door, or through an open space between the ceiling and a low front wall, breast-high, which is closed by solid shutters that are taken down every morning, put up every evening, and held in place by heavy iron bars.
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