breast high
/ˈbrɛstˌhaɪ/
adverb
- At or to the height of a person's chest.
- The corn grew breast-high in the fertile soil.
- The river rose breast-high during the flood.
- They stacked the hay bales breast-high against the barn wall.
adjective
- Reaching up to the height of a person's chest.
- The wheat in the field was breast-high by early summer.
- We waded through breast-high water to reach the boat.
- The snowdrifts were breast-high after the blizzard.