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Breech vs Breechblock - What's the difference?

breech | breechblock |

As nouns the difference between breech and breechblock

is that breech is a garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks while breechblock is the metal block that closes the breech of a breech-loading gun after insertion of the cartridge.

As an adverb breech

is with the hips coming out before the head.

As an adjective breech

is born, or having been born, breech.

As a verb breech

is to dress in breeches. especially To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.

breech

English

Noun

  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 157:
    • And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on her bare breech twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three dayes, till nine dayes were past [...].
  • * 1736 , Alexander Pope, Bounce to Fop :
    • When pamper'd Cupids'', bestly ''Veni's'', / And motly, squinting ''Harvequini's , / Shall lick no more their Lady's Br— , / But die of Looseness, Claps, or Itch; / Fair Thames from either ecchoing Shoare / Shall hear, and dread my manly Roar.
  • * 1749 , , Book III ch viii
  • *:"Oho!" says Thwackum, "you will not! then I will have it out of your br—h ;" that being the place to which he always applied for information on every doubtful occasion.
  • The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
  • (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
  • A breech birth.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • With the hips coming out before the head.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Born, or having been born, breech.

    • Derived terms

    * breech birth * rod for one's own breech

    Verb

  • (dated) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.
  • * 1748-1832 , Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10 :
    • it occurred before I was breeched , and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
  • * Macaulay
    • A great man anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched .
  • (dated) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
  • To fit or furnish with a breech.
    • to breech a gun
  • To fasten with breeching.
  • (poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.

    See also

    * breeches

    breechblock

    English

    Alternative forms

    * breech block

    Noun

    (wikipedia breechblock) (en noun)
  • The metal block that closes the breech of a breech-loading gun after insertion of the cartridge