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

Breeching :: Breeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breec.

Clinch :: Clinch (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts..

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..

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To fasten with breeching.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To support the breech of a cannon.

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

Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.

Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.

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

Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel..

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