breech-loader
Britishnoun
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Early on 1st January 1915, the two-man army packed into the ice-chest a Snider-Enfield, which Gool had bought for £5, and a Martini-Henry breech-loader with a long steel barrel.
From Newsweek
At this point he unslung his breech-loader, as the squire had done before, and ordered the front rank to fire.
From Brother Against Brother The War on the Border by Oliver Optic
A later innovation in the modern breech-loader is the single trigger mechanism introduced by some of the leading English gun-makers, by which both barrels can be fired in succession by a single trigger.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
None others, as it happened, were fated to fall victims to the deadly breech-loader of our sportsman-skipper.
From Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 by Various
How the breech-loader sprang open, and how the two spare charges went into it!
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by James Elverson
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