The de Bange obturator, an indispensable part of the breech mechanism of all large guns, was originally an American invention, but this Government allowed it to be developed and perfected abroad and given a foreign name.
She stands theh, at the breech of her rifle, and, ho law, cayn't she shoot!
I'll stand at the breech of my rifle, to defend it," she whispered to herself.
The absurdity of exploding gunpowder in a shell at the breech of a gun, and persisting in the advantage of it, is certainly tilting at a windmill.
The invention of the patent breech was the emanation of a scientific mind; for it has been productive of more real benefit to the progress of gunnery than any other improvement of the last two centuries.
Many barrel-makers turn their barrels entirely by self-acting lathes, and thus obtain a correct taper from breech end to muzzle.
In fact, they say they do not find any advantage from the patent breech in a musket: that the range is as great without it as with it.
Two great holes were made in the gun's rifling near the muzzle, and the breech was blown clean out, the screw being destroyed.
Then gun-cotton was thrust up the breech into the body of the gun.
Only two men could climb it abreast, and the advancing files could have been destroyed by a dozen marksmen with breech loaders.
The boy, after he was released from his board, went naked, except perhaps for a string of beads around his neck, until he was ten or twelve years old, though usually he assumed the breechclout before that age.
The dress of the old-time Pawnee male consisted of a breech clout, leggings, fringed at the side, and reaching from ankle to thigh, and moccasins.
He now clearly perceived that there was no longer anything to hope for, the breech could not be healed.
It has already been remarked, in another place, that breech presentations mostly terminate spontaneously, and that but few of them require interference.
In these eighty-five cases thebreech presented fifty-four times, and the feet twenty-six, the knees being found but once.
For want of proper care the breech has been mistaken for the head, and face, but this can scarcely happen if the accoucheur is attentive.
The descent of the breech usually takes place without much difficulty, into the Pelvis, it being small and easily compressed.
Occasionally we have the breech present, and still rarer even other parts; but these are merely exceptional deviations, the causes of which are unknown.
Owing to this movement the long diameter of the breech is adapted to the long diameter of the Pelvis, as in the case of the head.
Delivery in a breech presentation, the buttocks having just passed the Vulva.
The left however, speedily follows, and when the whole breech is born it rotates again, one hip coming immediately in front, and the other going immediately behind.
Four strong rope loops are secured to the edges of the band for the breast and breech ropes to pass through.
By the use of Crane's metal Breech they may be converted into Muzzle-loaders in a moment.
History of the Breech Loader and Metallic Cartridges.
The early breech-loaders had been discarded, as it was not known how to make the breech gas-tight, and the explosions rendered the guns more dangerous to their users than to the enemy.
The breechhad four chambers and was rotated by hand on an arbour parallel to the barrel.
It also has revolving barrels and great solidity in the breech mechanism.
As the handle is turned the cartridges are first given a forward motion, which thrusts them into the barrels, closes the breech and fires the cartridges in succession, and then a backward motion which extracts the empty shells.
Some were breech-loaders, having a removable chamber at the breech into which the charge of powder was inserted behind the ball.
The gun is mounted on a tripod; the cartridges are contained in a hopper mounted on the breech of the gun and are fed from locks into the barrels (which are usually five or ten in number) as the locks and barrels are revolved by a hand crank.
To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings.
The opening at thebreech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
The five saw in the spaces, amid the briars and vines, scores of dark figures leaping over the mud, naked to the breech cloth, armed with rifle and tomahawk, and rushing down upon the unprotected side of their foe.
Like the first, he was naked except for the breech cloth and moccasins.
They saw behind her the figures of chiefs, naked to the breech cloth for battle, their bronze bodies glistening with the war paint, and bright feathers gleaming in their hair.
He was entirely naked save for a breech cloth and moccasins, and he was a wild and savage figure.
Peter as the spy brought out a twelve-bore single-barrelled sporting gun with a breech action resembling that of a Martini rifle.
All serene," replied Kirkwood, affixing a whole drum of ammunition to the upper side of the breech mechanism of the deadly machine gun.
I think we'll be contented," said the captain, closing the breech of his piece, and passing it to Mark.
Not necessary," said the major, closing the breech of his piece and giving the stock an affectionate slap.
The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle.
The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck.
Ned and his mates shoved them into the gun, and again the breech was closed with a clang.
Into the breech of the big gun had been put the steel projectile, and back of that the powder, hundreds of pounds of it.
Mr. Manning, armed with a breech loading rifle, came coolly upon the field of action, backed by Mr. L.
Wheeler armed himself with an old breech loading carbine and placing himself in a room (No.
On my first trip to Marysville I took it to a blacksmith named Allison, who did all of our work, and asked him to cut it off about a foot from the breech end, so that I could use it as a cannon.
I took the breech end home with me, and endangered my life with it many years.
MacDonald threw open the breech of his single-loader and drew out a cartridge as long as his finger.
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.
I pull this lever and the breech of the gun opens so that I can put in this little roll, which is a cartridge-- do you see?
Then either before or after you have fired your second barrel, according to circumstances, but with your eyes still fixed upon the bird or animal at which you shot, open the breech of your gun, take out the spent cartridge, and reload.
