Word Meanings - BREECH-LOADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.

• Chargeableness
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive.
• Receivability
  The quality of being receivable; receivableness.
• Chargeably
  At great cost; expensively.
• Receivable
  Capable of being received.
• Charges d'affaires
  of Charge d'affaires
• Receiving
  of Receive
• Charge d'affaires
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• 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 It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.
• Receivedness
  The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.
• Breechcloth
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• Chargehouse
  A schoolhouse.

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