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rear sight

American  

noun

  1. the sight nearest the breech of a firearm.


rear sight British  

noun

  1. the sight of a gun nearest to the breech

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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By his read, this is the rear sight of from a DShK variant, a .50-caliber machine gun.

From New York Times Oct. 27, 2011

In addition, it has a fold-down adjustable rear sight and a Truglo fiber-optic front sight.

From Time Magazine Archive

I've managed to get the ring of the front sight to sit just inside the slightly larger ring of the rear sight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Curtis pressed down the rear sight and fired again; but Glover was still riding hard, with Stanton dropping behind him.

From Prescott of Saskatchewan by Dunton, W. Herbert

If aiming correctly the rear sight, the front sight and the bull's-eye will look as shown in Fig.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)

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