Word Meanings - BREECHACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 loading position.

• Smally
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.
• BREECHLOADING
  Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
• Certain
  Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
• Locking
  of Lock
• Lockup
  A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
• Methodization
  The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
• Rotate
  Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
• Special
  Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.
• BREECHPINBREECHSCREW
  A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
• Certainly
  Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
• Lockage
  Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.
• Lock-weir
  A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
• Methodized
  of Methodize
• Rotated
  of Rotate
• Specialism
  Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.
• BREECHSIGHT
  A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.
• Automatic
  Alt. of Automatical
• Certainness
  Certainty.
• Lock-down
  A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.

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