Word Meanings - BREECHCLOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cloth worn around the breech.

• Clotheshorse
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• Breeching
  of Breech
• Clothesline
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• 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 It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.
• Clothespin
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• Breechcloth
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• Clothespress
  A receptacle for clothes.
• Breechloader
  A firearm which receives its load at the breech.
• Breech-loading
  Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
• BREECHACTION
  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

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