Sentence example with the word 'breech'

breech

afterpart, back seat, bedrock, bottom side, fanny, hind end, lowest layer, occiput, rear end, rump, tail end, underneath

Definition n. opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded

Last update: August 9, 2015


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This weapon embodied all the essential features which distinguish the ordnance of to-day from the cannon of the middle ages - it was built up of rings of metal shrunk upon an inner steel barrel; it was loaded at the breech; it was rifled; and it threw, not a round ball, but an elongated projectile with ogival head.   [Please select]

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At that he laughed in good earnest, and slapped his breech-clouts repeatedly.   [Please select]

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We plainly heard the snap of breech-blocks being tested.   [Please select]

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Like the first, he was naked except for the breech cloth and moccasins.   [Please select]

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He hesitated for a space, then unlocked the breech and held the tubes toward the window.   [Please select]

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He unlocked the breech and held the nozzles toward the candle light--and again cursed.   [Please select]

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A Hall flintlock breech-loader; an Elisha Collier flintlock revolver; a pair of Forsythe detonator-lock pistols.   [Please select]

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