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Definitionn. 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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