BPage 395
- English Word Breech Definition To fasten with breeching.
- English Word Breech pin Definition Alt. of Breech screw
- English Word Breech screw Definition A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
- English Word Breech sight Definition A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.
- English Word Breech-loading Definition Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
- English Word Breechblock Definition 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 It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.
- English Word Breechcloth Definition A cloth worn around the breech.
- English Word Breeched Definition of Breech
- English Word Breeches Definition A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
- English Word Breeches Definition Trousers; pantaloons.
- English Word Breeching Definition of Breech
- English Word Breeching Definition A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech.
- English Word Breeching Definition That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.
- English Word Breeching Definition 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.
- English Word Breeching Definition The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.
- English Word Breechloader Definition A firearm which receives its load at the breech.
- English Word Breed Definition To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
- English Word Breed Definition To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
- English Word Breed Definition To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
- English Word Breed Definition To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.