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

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

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

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

Diaper :: Diaper (n.) An infant's breechcloth.

Gaskins :: Gaskins (n.pl.) Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.

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..

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

Tang :: Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..

Breech :: Breech (n.) The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber..

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

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun..

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..

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

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

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

Hausse :: Hausse (n.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon..

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

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

Vent :: Vent (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole..

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