BREAST-HIGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breast-high mean? 

• BREAST-HIGH (adverb)
  The adverb BREAST-HIGH has 1 sense:

1. up to the breast

  Familiarity information: BREAST-HIGH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAST-HIGH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Up to the breast

Synonyms:

breast-deep; breast-high

Context example:

we were standing breast-high in the water

 Context examples 

See the foxhound with hanging ears and drooping tail as it lolls about the kennels, and compare it with the same hound as, with gleaming eyes and straining muscles, it runs upon a breast-high scent—such was the change in Holmes since the morning.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)