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Waistband :: Waistband (n.) The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like..

Knickerbockers :: Knickerbockers (n. pl.) The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes.

Sight :: Sight (v. t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming..

Inexpressibles :: Inexpressibles (n. pl.) Breeches; trousers.

Breech :: Breech (n.) The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

Breech :: Breech (n.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

Unbreeched :: Unbreeched (imp. & p. p.) of Unbreec.

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.

Gomer :: Gomer (n.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor..

Bear''s-breech :: Bear's-breech (n.) See Acanthus, n., 1..

Dicentra :: Dicentra (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis)..

Buckskin :: Buckskin (n.) Breeches made of buckskin.

Chassepot :: Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun..

Mitrailleuse :: Mitrailleuse (n.) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly..

Codpiece :: Codpiece (n.) A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous..

Galligaskins :: Galligaskins (n. pl.) Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To fasten with breeching.

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To support the breech of a cannon.

Slop :: Slop (v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.

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