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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..

Buckskin :: Buckskin (n.) Breeches made of buckskin.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Breech :: Breech (n.) Breeches.

Bear''s-breech :: Bear's-breech (n.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium.

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To whip on the breech.

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

Hanselines :: Hanselines (n.) A sort of breeches.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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