Word Meanings - CASCABEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. Note:
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- PROJECTION
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction - CONNECTOR
One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - CANNON BONE
See BONE - CONNECTIVELY
In connjunction; jointly. - BREECH-LOADING
Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle. - CANNONADE
1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle - CONNECTEDLY
In a connected manner. - 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 - 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 - CANNONEER; CANNONIER
A man who manages, or fires, cannon. - INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them. - CANNONED
Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold. - WRITERSHIP
The office of a writer. - CONNECTIVE
Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive. - 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. - 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 - CONNECT
Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each - DISCONNECT
To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious - DISCONNECTION
The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke. - DELTA CONNECTION
One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit. - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - DEMICANNON
A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak. - CANONIC; CANNONICAL
Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of