Look up breech in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breech may refer to: Breech (firearms), the opening at the rear of a gun barrel where the cartridge...
breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel)...
breech baby. Due to their higher than average rate of possible complications for the baby, breech births are generally considered higher risk. Breech...
Look up breeching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breeching (also britching) may refer to: Breeching (boys), putting boys in breeches or trousers for...
A breechblock (or breech block) is the part of the firearm action that closes the breech of a breech loading weapon (whether small arms or artillery) before...
Locked breech is the design of a breech-reloading firearm's action. This is important in understanding how a self-reloading firearm works. In the simplest...
A loincloth is a one-piece garment, either wrapped around itself or kept in place by a belt. It covers the genitals and sometimes the buttocks. Loincloths...
A rifled breech loader (RBL) is an artillery piece which, unlike the smoothbore cannon and rifled muzzle loader which preceded it, has rifling in the barrel...
The Welin breech block was a revolutionary stepped, interrupted thread design for locking artillery breeches, invented by Axel Welin in 1889 or 1890. Shortly...
A floating breech is a breechblock of a firearm that is not held rigidly to the barrel at the moment of firing, but instead is free to move in the opposite...
James Thomas Breech (born April 11, 1956) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League (NFL), who played for Oakland Raiders...
Acanthus spinosus, the spiny bear's breech, is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to southern Europe, from Italy to western...
False breeching can refer to: False breeching on the shafts of an animal-drawn vehicle; see Breeching (tack) False breeching on a firearm or other weapon;...
Remington Rolling Block is a family of breech-loading rifles that was produced from the mid-1860s into the early 20th century by E. Remington and Sons...
An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England...
Asia and Africa. Although breech-loading is often considered a modern innovation which facilitated the loading of cannons, breech-loading swivel guns were...
the breechblock that makes contact with the cartridge in a firearm. The breech block (or breechblock) in a gun is what holds a round in the chamber, and...
Breech Academy (also called Breech Training Academy) was a school operated by Trans World Airlines between 1969 and 1988 to train flight attendants, ticket...
rising breech carbine was a Confederate weapon produced and used during the American Civil War. Antiques Site The image of the rising breech carbine...
guns use a different breech system; the breech is quarter-cylindrical, and rotates at an axis parallel to the bore. This breech had one or two chambers...