Word Meanings - BREECHLOADER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A firearm which receives its load at the breech. For cavalry, the revolver and breechloader will supersede the saber. Rep. Sec. War .

Related words: (words related to BREECHLOADER)

• FIREARM
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• BREECH-LOADING
  Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BREECH PIN; BREECH SCREW
  A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
• BREECHES
  breech, breeches; akin to Icel. brok breeches, ODan. brog, D. broek, G. bruch; cf. L. bracae, braccae, which is of Celtic origin. Cf. 1. A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. His jacket was red, and his breeches were
• SUPERSEDE
  To omit; to forbear. (more info) superior to, forbear, omit; super above + sedere to sit: cf. F. 1. To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace. 2. To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer. 3. To
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BREECHLOADER
  A firearm which receives its load at the breech. For cavalry, the revolver and breechloader will supersede the saber. Rep. Sec. War .
• 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 It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.
• SUPERSEDEAS
  A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ. Blackstone.
• BREECH
  The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat. (more info) 1. The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks. 2. Breeches. Shak. 3. The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind
• BREECH 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
• REVOLVER
  One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.
• SABERBILL; SABREBILL
  The curlew.
• BREECHING
  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. 4. The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to
• CAVALRY
  That part of military force which serves on horseback. Note: Heavy cavalry and light cavalry are so distinguished by the character of their armament, and by the size of the men and horses.
• CAVALRYMAN
  One of a body of cavalry.
• BREECH SIGHT
  A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.
• SABER; SABRE
  A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword. Saber fish, or Sabre fish , the cutlass fish. (more info) cf. Hung. száblya, Pol. szabla, Russ. sabla, and L. Gr.
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• UNBREECH
  To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings. Pennant. (more info) 1. To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches. Shak.