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n. - Opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded.

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  • A Swiss, Pauly tinkered with various experimental designs for breech-loading military rifles.
  • Be advised, that I will be in breech of an agreement I made with that news corp. by referring to them in any way.
  • If it is a government employee then they are in breech of agency policy on the release of documents not approved for release by the agency.
  • The analysis of the 32 million user password breech at RockYou certainly highlights that.
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  • She put the gun, "breech" (the back of a weapon) first through the "breach" (gap) in the stockade.
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