breech-loader

British  

/ ˈbriːtʃˌləʊdə /

noun

1. a firearm that is loaded at the breech

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Example Sentences

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

Twenty-four mounted men, including those from Lyndhall, were mustered, each with a breech-loader, in the absence of sabres and carbines.

From Brother Against Brother The War on the Border by Optic, Oliver

The breech-loader was taken down and stored in the library for an aggravated occasion.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

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

If the emigrant is the happy owner of a good breech-loader, let him bring it, with as many of Eley's green cases as he can pack.

From Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis