breasting

[ bres-ting ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of breasting¹

breast + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.

From Los Angeles Times

Cormorants balancing on the calcified poles of long-abandoned jetties, looked, as they spread their wings to dry in the sun, like runners breasting a tape.

From Washington Post

Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.

From Salon

The sea god Neptune takes retribution by sending a monster who advances “across the expanse of ocean, breasting the surge of the waves” to devour Andromeda.

From Washington Post

The sight of him breasting that tape stays with me.

From BBC