Definition of breech

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

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Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades..
Corduroy :: Corduroy (n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
Stock :: Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings)..
Breechloader :: Breechloader (n.) A firearm which receives its load at the breech.
Buckskin :: Buckskin (n.) Breeches made of buckskin.
Chassepot :: Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun..
Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To fasten with breeching.
Retractor :: Retractor (n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel..
Galligaskins :: Galligaskins (n. pl.) Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.
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..
Slop :: Slop (v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
Lump :: Lump (n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
Codpiece :: Codpiece (n.) A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous..
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.].
Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech..
Bear''s-breech :: Bear's-breech (n.) See Acanthus, n., 1..
Dispart :: Dispart (n.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
Hausse :: Hausse (n.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon..
Breech Pin :: Breech pin () Alt. of Breech scre.
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