Breech Loading - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: breech loadingBreech action
The breech mechanism in breech loading small arms and certain special guns as automatic and machine guns used frequently in referring to the method by which the movable barrels of breech loading shotguns are locked unlocked or rotated to loading position...
Breech loading
Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle...
Breechblock
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movable piece which closes the breech of a breech loading firearm and resists the backward force of the discharge It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge and closed again before the gun is fired...
Fermeture
The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech loading firearm in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock obturator and carrier ring...
Krupp gun
A breech loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp at Essen in Prussia Guns of over eight inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders those of a smaller size are forged solid...
VerbarMitrailleuse
A breech loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously or successively and rapidly...
Snider rifle
A breech loading rifle formerly used in the British service so called from the inventor...
Load-line
Load-line, a line painted on the sides of a ship to show how far up the sides the water will rise when the ship is loaded. The (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 9), substituted a 'maximum load-line in salt water, to which it should be lawful to load a ship,' i.e., a compulsory load-line, for a load-line indicating a point beyond which the owner intended that it should not be loaded, as prescribed by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, i.e., an optional load-line; and this provision of the Act of 1890 was re-enacted by s. 437 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and see also s. 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. Both these sections have now been repealed by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), and ss. 43 to 46 now prescribed the law.Under the (English) M.S. Act, 1894, s. 442, sub-mergence beyond the load-line by reason of weather was held to be an offence, Radcliffe v. Brickwell, (1927) 2...
Breeching
A whipping on the breech or the act of whipping on the breech...
no-load
no-load : charging no sales commission [a mutual fund] compare load no-load n ...
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