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

Slop :: Slop (v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.

Action :: Action (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun..

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

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

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

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..

Breeches :: Breeches (n. pl.) Trousers; pantaloons.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Dicentra :: Dicentra (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis)..

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..

Acanthus :: Acanthus (n.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech..

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..

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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