breech-loading

/ ˈbriːtʃˌləʊdɪŋ /

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The Whitmore double-barrel breech-loading shotgun was designed, and later developed into the Remington breech-loading shotgun.

The breech-loading principle was also adopted in them, and special provision to effect this satisfactorily was invented by him.

Americans remember well his gigantic steel breech-loading guns at the expositions held in Philadelphia, and Chicago.

He had a breech-loading double-barreled rifle with him and two revolvers.

He leaned on a long breech-loading rifle, and carried a huge knife and revolver in his belt.

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