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breech
noun as in behind
noun as in bottom
noun as in rump
noun as in seat
noun as in tush
verb as in clothe
Strong matches
Example Sentences
By midday Wednesday they were scrambling to plot a response to the monumental security breech.
This is exactly the breech into which progressive women should step.
But it was not until fixed ammunition came into use that the breech-loader really came to stay—and that was only the other day.
He devised the famous system of a dropping breech block, backed up by the hammer.
Spain had 10,000 muskets to modernize by the same system, and the breech-block attachments were made at Ilion.
The Whitmore double-barrel breech-loading shotgun was designed, and later developed into the Remington breech-loading shotgun.
The Nubian wore black tights and shirt, black slippers and a white skull cap and breech-clout.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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