His visit was of scarcely five minutes' duration; but was evidently the opening of a Breaching battery by the Bingham family in all form-the object of which I could at least guess at.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
When a whale thus leaps his whole length out of the water, the sailors say he "breaches," and Breaching is a common practice.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne
He's to keep us from Breaching the continent.
"A Yankee Flier in Italy"
Rutherford G. Montgomery