breechblock
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of breechblock
Example Sentences
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L�ger saw his fill of suffering in World War I, but the image he carried away with him was the dazzling light of a breechblock gleaming in the sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs on to the wedge breechblock and the wool-combing machine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Brownson had noticed the incident and he sent word to delay opening the breechblock until all danger of explosion had passed.
From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell
In the bore, pent in by the polished breechblock, is a cartridge which has failed in its duty.
From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell
The wooden breechblock completely did away with the heavy hydraulic recoil cylinders which were one of the distinguishing features of the seventy-five.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
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