Crossword-Solution: BREECHBLOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Breechblock | n. | The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired. |
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| Part of a gun | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
OMENIOT
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with BREECHBLOCK (5)
They rub off the mud or the rain that has come at night on their rifles, they detach the magazine and see that its spring is working, they take out the breechblock and oil it, and put back everything clean: and another night is gone; it is one day nearer victory.
There was no speck of rust in the unused muzzle, no hitch in the easily sliding mechanism of the breechblock.
Let's get on with it." Brad noted that Rimov was staring at the intensity slide visible on the breechblock of his sheathed weapon.
Hotchkiss (1826-85), American inventor.] Defn: A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock which moves horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket.
Apply the cosmic first with a brush; then, with the breech plugged, fill the barrel to the muzzle, pour out the surplus, remove the breechblock, and allow to drain.