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

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

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

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

Corduroy :: Corduroy (n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.

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..

Smallclothes :: Smallclothes (n. pl.) A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.

Sans-culotte :: Sans-culotte (n.) A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons..

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

Muzzle-loader :: Muzzle-loader (n.) A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle, as distinguished from one which is loaded at the breech..

Hose :: Hose (n.) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee..

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

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..

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

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

Brankursine :: Brankursine (n.) Bear's-breech, or Acanthus..

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

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

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To put into, or clothe with, breeches..

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