breast up

1. Of boats, to pull up alongside (abreast) another boat, as when traveling or mooring. We were enjoying the calm of the spring morning, when another boat breasted up and strangers began boarding our ship unannounced.

2. obsolete To cut the face of a plant, especially a hedge, on one side to reveal its stems. Please ask the gardener not to breast up the hedges like that. I know it's meant to promote growth, but I detest the look of the bare stems.

词组	breast up
释义	breast up breast up 1. Of boats, to pull up alongside (abreast) another boat, as when traveling or mooring. We were enjoying the calm of the spring morning, when another boat breasted up and strangers began boarding our ship unannounced. 2. obsolete To cut the face of a plant, especially a hedge, on one side to reveal its stems. Please ask the gardener not to breast up the hedges like that. I know it's meant to promote growth, but I detest the look of the bare stems. See also: breast, up Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: wash overboard shove off take (someone) for a ride, to full boat by a canvas little man in the boat go aboard in dock boy in the boat float
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