breeching

noun5

1. •
   A rope used to secure a cannon.

   • The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength. — 1923
2. •
   A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
3. •
   (historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
4. •
   A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
5. •
   (slang) A beating or flogging.