Breeching - Law Dictionary Search Results
VerbarMitrailleuse
A breech loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together so arranged that the barrels can be
Krupp gun
A breech loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp at Essen in Prussia Guns of over eight
Snider rifle
A breech loading rifle formerly used in the British service so called from the inventor
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Firing pin
In the breech mechanism of a firearm the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it
Brankursine
Bears breech or Acanthus
Bears breech
The English cow parsnip Heracleum sphondylium
Dutchmans breeches
a delicate perennial spring flowering herb Dicentra cucullaria of eastern US having peculiar double spurred white flowers See Illust of Dicentra
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movable piece which closes the breech of a breech loading firearm and resists the backward force of the discharge It is withdrawn for the
Fermeture
The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech loading firearm in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock obturator and carrier ring
VerbarSans culotte
A fellow without breeches a ragged fellow a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party
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