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

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 It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

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.].

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

Breech :: Breech (n.) The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber..

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

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)..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Breech :: Breech (n.) Breeches.

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

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

Breech Screw :: Breech screw () A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore..

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