- Look up
breech in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Breech may
refer to:
Breech (firearms), the
opening at the rear of a gun
barrel where the cartridge...
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breechloader is a
firearm in
which the user
loads the
ammunition from the
breech end of the
barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel)...
-
breech baby. Due to
their higher than
average rate of
possible complications for the baby,
breech births are
generally considered higher risk.
Breech...
- Look up
breeching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Breeching (also britching) may
refer to:
Breeching (boys),
putting boys in
breeches or
trousers for...
- A
breechblock (or
breech block) is the part of the
firearm action that
closes the
breech of a
breech loading weapon (whether
small arms or artillery) before...
- A
breech-lock is a
system for
mounting camera lenses to
camera bodies. The lens is
attached to the
camera by
means of a
rotating ring
which is used to...
- A
loincloth is a one-piece garment,
either wrapped around itself or kept in
place by a belt. It
covers the
genitals and
sometimes the buttocks. Loincloths...
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Locked breech is the
design of a
breech-reloading firearm's action. This is
important in
understanding how a self-reloading
firearm works. In the simplest...
- It was a
breech-loading cannon; the
breech of the
cannon is
uniquely like a bolt-action but has no
firing pin in its bolt.
Rifled breech loader v t...
- A
rifled breech loader (RBL) is an
artillery piece which,
unlike the
smoothbore cannon and
rifled muzzle loader which preceded it, has
rifling in the barrel...
