Breech is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BREECH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to clothe with breeches
• dress (a boy) in breeches after he has been in petticoats since birth
• To put into, or clothe with, breeches.
• To cover as with breeches.
• To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.
• To whip on the breech.
• To fasten with breeching.
• fit (a gun) with a breech
NOUN:
• the part of a cannon behind the bore.
• the back part of a rifle or gun barrel
• The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
• Breeches.
• The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.
• The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
• opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded
• lower part
• a person's buttocks.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to clothe with breeches (trousers)

Words related to BREECH

breeched16 breeches15 breeching17 breechless17 buttocks16

Words that contain BREECH

breeched16 breeches15 unbreech15 breeching17 breechings18 breechless17 unbreeched18 unbreeches17 breechblock26 breechcloth23 breechclout20 unbreeching19 breechblocks27 breechcloths24 breechclouts21 breechloader20 breechloaders21

How to use BREECH in a sentence

• He dropped shells, fumbled with them at the breech, loaded wildly, aimed at random, pulled convulsively.
• Alas! my breech makes buttons, And so would theirs, knew they as much as I.
• They thrust the first projectile into the breech of the cannon while the gunner made an effort to distinguish that small black cane hardly perceptible among the tossing waves.
• He was naked except for belt and breech cloth, and water ran from his shining bronze body.
• For the first time he had seen MacDonald fill his pockets with the finger-long cartridges for his rifle, and he had noted how carefully he had looked at the breech of that rifle.
• The valve is a continuation of the breech of the gun.
• The heavy shell had landed fairly on top of the spot where their gun had stood, where the empty cartridge cases had been flung in a heap from the breech.
• On the forecastle lay the perfection of a breech-loading gun, very thick at the breech, and very narrow in the bore, the model of which had been in the Exhibition of 1867.
• Dropping the breech of his gun, Nick looked to see the result of his shot, and found it amazing to a startling degree.
• It will be an additional security to take off the rear trucks, and to tighten the muzzle-lashing by raising the breech.
• He then withdraws as far as the lock-lanyard permits, standing on the quarter of the breech, and outside of the wheel.
• Suddenly the breech of the gun slipped lower down the upright log.
• A few breech loading rifles are owned in the tribe.
• His practised hands had another cartridge in and the breech closed in an instant.
• The invalid entered the lodge and stood on the rug and removed all of his clothing except the breech cloth.
• Here was one ripped open from muzzle to breech, and there was another with its mouth blown into the shape of a trumpet.
• Into the breech with it and the two cartridges after it.
• When they were needed to help in making war, all they had to do was to slip a shell in the breech and send it with their compliments to the Germans.
• Economy would be easier if it were harder to slip a shell into a gun- breech.
• Panurge alone sat on his breech upon deck, weeping and howling.
• Fingering the rifle Hare found the spring opening on the right side of the breech, and, pressing it down, he felt the round head of a cartridge.
• Their breech blocks all snapped together as their corporal gave them the order to load.
• Here he halted, breaking the weapon at the breech and allowing the cartridges to drop into his hand.
• Part of them had cut the breech of their pantaloons away, leaving only the leggings.
• These guns are practically uninjured, and Admiral Dewey has the breech blocks.
• Black then attempted to strike Champion with the breech of his gun, but Champion kicked him down, and as he drew his knife to stab Mr.
• This is known as mortar firing, but the modern ordnance used for this purpose is more of a howitzer than a mortar, being simply short rifled pieces arranged for breech loading.

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