A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
“The 48-year-old patient has had a tumor on her left breast for several years.”
“Something big and sad is happening, and I can feel it in my breast and in my head, but I know not what it is, or where it is, but I can feel it and I know it is there.”
“The lowering sky was like a force bearing down on the breast of the city, and the wind, deathlike, did not stir.”
“Like the jewels in the ephod and the breastplate, we are precious in the eyes of God the Father and of God the Son.”
“I looked in, and there indeed did I behold the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate, as stated by the messenger.”
“He turned his back to Hunter, showing his armor was a breastplate instead of a cuirass like Hunter wore.”
breastwheel
A water wheel where 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 the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.
“But total kudos to the ladies who refer to them as breasticles, chesticles, babylons, bazookas, guzingas, bangers, noobies and, a possible winner, Michael Boobles.”