breasting.

/bres-ting/US // ˈbrɛs tɪŋ //

爆破,冲泡,浇花,铸币

Definitions

1.
- ›a piece of leather or other material for covering the heel breast of a shoe.

We were now merely breasting the current, and driving on a little with the gusts.
We were now in the open air, breasting a swooping nor'-wester that chilled the very marrow of my bones.
Three minutes later they were breasting through a low thicket of evergreen.
For some time the swimmers continued to strike out to sea, breasting over the swell like hundreds of black seals.
It is thus supposed to typify a young man breasting the stream of life, and thrusting his way through difficulties to success.