breech-loading
Britishadjective
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Conservators for Blackbeard’s ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge found the 16 fragments of paper wedged inside the chamber for a breech-loading cannon, with the largest piece being the size of a quarter.
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He had a beautiful breech-loading shotgun, costing, he suggested, a hundred and twenty dollars.
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It will be, moreover, memorable as being the first encounter in which British troops ever used breech-loading rifles.
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The modern explorer has at his service breech-loading magazine rifles, invaluable geographical and scientific knowledge, and an adequate supply of suitable food and drugs.
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One curious effect of the cold was that their breech-loading guns sometimes proved useless, for the barrels contracted so much that the cartridges could not be inserted.
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