breasting
[ bres-ting ]
noun
a piece of leather or other material for covering the heel breast of a shoe.
Origin of breasting
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How to use breasting in a sentence
We were now merely breasting the current, and driving on a little with the gusts.
Left on Labrador | Charles Asbury StephensWe were now in the open air, breasting a swooping nor'-wester that chilled the very marrow of my bones.
Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service | Charles James LeverThree minutes later they were breasting through a low thicket of evergreen.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonFor some time the swimmers continued to strike out to sea, breasting over the swell like hundreds of black seals.
The Coral Island | R.M. BallantyneIt is thus supposed to typify a young man breasting the stream of life, and thrusting his way through difficulties to success.
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan | John Finnemore
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