Sentence examples for breech from inspiring English sources

You will hear whale song and see them breech, fluke and nurse their babies – who themselves are often very curious about humans.

The rifle also has a cartridge in the breech – a detail that is depicted with a painterly x-ray technique that is also applied to paintings of white men and women.

And while liberal Saudis cheered the keen (and sometimes not completely veiled) participation of Saudi businesswomen at the recent Jeddah Economic Forum, this breech of strict social rules won a searing reproach from the kingdom's top state-appointed religious authority.

Delvigne designed a chambered breech rifle that was adopted by France in 1842.

In 1826 Henri-Gustave Delvigne of France, seeking a means of expanding the projectile without making it difficult to ram home, created a narrow powder chamber at the breech end of the barrel against which a loosely fitting lead ball came to rest.

This introduced an on-carriage hydropneumatic recoil-control system, a shield to protect the gunners, modern sighting, fixed ammunition, and a quick-acting breech mechanism thus forming the prototype of what became known as the "quick-firing gun".

THE very moment he came into the world, breech-born, at Bayreuth, Wolfgang Wagner's life was mapped out for him.

All other European countries soon adopted cartridge breech-loading rifles, usually by converting existing muzzle-loaders and then by purchasing purpose-built breechloaders.

By the 1860s, percussion caps, which detonate upon being struck a sharp blow by the firing pin of a gun, had been incorporated into a metal cartridge case containing all the components for a complete round that could be used in breech-loading rifles.

The son of a locksmith, Dreyse worked from 1809 to 1814 in the Parisian gun factory of Jean-Samuel Pauly, a Swiss who designed several experimental breech-loading military rifles.

The American Civil War also previewed the importance of breech-loading rifles.