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Breech Screw :: Breech screw () A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore..

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To cover as with breeches.

Cascabel :: Cascabel (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.].

Pantaloon :: Pantaloon (n.) A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one..

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

Short :: Short (n.) Breeches; shortclothes.

Action :: Action (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun..

Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings..

Unmentionables :: Unmentionables (n. pl.) The breeches; trousers.

Breeching :: Breeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breec.

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

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech..

Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.

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..

Breech-loading :: Breech-loading (a.) Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation..

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

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.

Breech Sight :: Breech sight () A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim..

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