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

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.].

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Breechloader :: Breechloader (n.) A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

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..

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To cover as with breeches.

Breechcloth :: Breechcloth (n.) A cloth worn around the breech.

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

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

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech..

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

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)..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

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

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