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

Lump :: Lump (n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

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

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)..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings)..

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

Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The particular position of the child during labor relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; -- specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of the uterus; as, a breech presentation..

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

Bear''s-breech :: Bear's-breech (n.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium.

Dispart :: Dispart (n.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

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

Brogues :: Brogues (n. pl.) Breeches.

Trail :: Trail (v. t.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle..

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..

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..

Krupp Gun :: Krupp gun () A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle..

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

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

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