breech
4
9.6
- noun
- /briːtʃ/
- Specialized
:
recámara
- Then when you're done, you close the breech and then cock it and it's armed.
- rifle breech
Examples
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It's the little lever next to the breech.
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I've got one in the breech and an extra mag.
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Not until the second round goes into the breech.
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And what l do is l put this now in the breech in the rifle, okay?
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I could see the butts of two shells in the breech.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's a short recoil-operated, locked-breech pistol.
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He managed to break the gun open and peered into the breech; it wasn't loaded.
Fiction book (1990) -
Aino slammed a thumb-sized cartridge into the breech and stood up.
Fiction book (1996) -
For a whole week, the rifle had been stowed away in the closet, and now, as he set the breech into place, he did so with tender, gliding movements.
Fiction book (1996) -
To load the bullet, first pull back the lever and open the breech of the rifle.
Synonyms
8
8.1
To put a bullet or shell into a gun's chamber to prepare it to fire
The space in a gun where a bullet sits before you fire it
Part of a gun where a bullet sits before you shoot
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.7
A birth when a baby comes out feet or bottom first instead of head first
- Specialized
1
7.1
A birth when the baby comes feet or bottom first instead of head first
- Specialized
1
6.3
The position of a baby in the womb with feet or bottom coming out first instead of the head
- Specialized
A metal block that opens and closes the rear of a gun to allow loading a cartridge
- Specialized
A baby before birth with its bottom nearest the birth canal and legs straight up near the head
Surface Forms
Etymology
Breech comes from the old word breeches, which meant 'trousers' and the part that covers the 'buttocks', so it was used for the 'rear' of things. That's why the breech of a gun is the back part of the barrel where you load a bullet.