rear of barrel

1. 1.

   opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded

   Synonymsbreechrear of tube

   Broaderopening

   Part ofbarrel

   Partsbreechblock

Questions about rear of barrel

What does rear of barrel mean?

rear of barrel means "opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded".

What is another word for rear of barrel?

Close synonyms include breech, rear of tube. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rear of barrel a common word?

rear of barrel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.