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breech

noun as in behind

noun as in bottom

noun as in rear end

Strongest match

noun as in seat

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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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On this page you'll find 146 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to breech, such as: backside, bottom, bum, can, fanny, and fundament.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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