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

Breech Pin :: Breech pin () Alt. of Breech scre.

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

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

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

Spank :: Spank (v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap..

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

Bombard :: Bombard (n.) Padded breeches.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns..

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

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..

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

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