Breast·ing, n. Mach. The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.
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 Breast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breasting.] To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
    The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer.   --Wirt.
 To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.
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