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Breast-deep

Breast-deep \Breast"-deep`\ (br[e^]st"d[=e]p`), a. Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.

Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him.
--Shak.

WordNet
breast-deep

adv. up to the breast; "we were standing breast-high in the water" [syn: breast-high]

Usage examples of "breast-deep".

He waded out, breast-deep, almost, and the next moment the sun-burned bricks melted down like sugar and the big building crumbled to a ruin and was washed away in a twinkling.

We're about ready to start on the bridge, the river's nearly breast-deep already, and once the rains get going…"