What is "breechings"

Usage examples of "breechings".

Was the ropework sound, or had it gone grey, rotting in the rain and sun, so that train tackles and breechings would be useless, parting with the recoil of the first round and letting the gun career back out of control?

From the crew he turned his attention to the ship — the breechings of the guns, the way the falls were flemished down, the cleanliness of the decks, the galley and the forecastle.

Double breechings were rove on the guns, and they were further secured with tackles.

Seven kicks a little, but we renewed the breechings last week, and the bolts are sound.

An overheated quarterdeck carronade overset on its recoil, breaking its breechings, and Jack was too busy helping to check it as it plunged among a mess of hammocks blasted from the nettings and of blood to see what was happening forward until he heard-the crash as the Chesapeake's quarter came grinding against the Shannon's side, just amidships.

Here one of the twelve-pounders had come adrift, its breechings shot away by the Natividad's last broadside.

There only remained the ticklish job of manoeuvring it back to its gun port and securing it with fresh breechings.

But on the other hand an immense amount of work had been done, from laying out the dead to securing the guns and frapping the breechings.