Word Meanings - BREECHBLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

• Firkin
  A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
• Force pump
  A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• Pieceless
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• Close-banded
  Closely united.
• CLOSEBANDED
  Closely united.
• Close-tongued
  Closemouthed; silent.
• FIRSTRATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).
• Firebote
  An allowance of fuel. See Bote.
• Fire-new
  Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
• Firlot
  A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
• Firstborn
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• Forcer
  One who, or that which, forces or drives.
• Breech
  The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
• Piecely
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• Close-barred
  Firmly barred or closed.
• CLOSEBARRED
  Firmly barred or closed.
• FIRTREE
  . See Fir.

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