breast up

— If the fence be old and ragged at the bottom, all the strong stems are sawn off near the roots; and when there are any young slender shoots, they are reserved for the purpose of plashing or laying, and are fastened down with short hook pegs, the cop having been previously "breasted up," as it is termed, with the contents of the ditch; if there should not be young wood enough to form a sufficient fence to the field, a small beard of thorns is put along the top of the cop.

— Joel and Maryann, their skill honed by anger and determination to prove their point, breasted up the boats in quick time and edged side by side into Hatton's bottom lock.

— The wind was free enough, as has been already explained, to admit of this manoeuvre, and the cutter catching the current under her lee bow, was breasted up to her course in a way that showed she would come out to windward of the island again , without any difficulty.

— In the south the northernmost Alps breasted up to be swept by the receding red-gold flood of the day's last light.

— Peeping down, we beheld a company, breasted up against a board, groaning under numerous viands.

— This process is continued, removing each set in succession, and removing also the roof laths as they are left free, until arriving within 9 feet of the air level, when the end is securely breasted up; and after all the stripping levels have been worked out to the same extent, the air level itself, if no longer required to be kept open, is also stripped back in the same manner.