ˈbreaching, vbl. n.
[f. breach v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of making a breach in, or of breaking through (a wall, etc.): also attrib.
| 1803 Wellington Let. in Gurw. Disp. II. 479 If the wall should be so bad as not to require breaching. 1833 Fraser's Mag. VIII. 317 The subsequent breaching of the Spanish fortresses. 1855 Prescott Philip II, I. iv. iii. 417 The breaching artillery consisted of forty-three guns. 1878 Macm. Mag. Jan. 252/1 The breaching of tanks from excessive rain. |
2. See quot., and cf. breach n. 6 and v. 3.
| a 1843 Penny 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. 1885 Longm. Mag. 407. |