breechloader
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of breechloader
Example Sentences
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The gun belonging to the Sea Flower was a small breechloader of good pattern, and could carry a shell quite as far as the boats.
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Our guns are the worst in the world in forty-seven vessels, mounting 350 muzzleloaders, where the French and all foreign Navies use only breechloaders.
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But these breechloaders, which send forth continuous flame, swift as the lightning, flash on flash, allow not a moment for thought.
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I thought poor Spalding might have left me some trifle to remember him by—his pet breechloader, or something of the kind; but, candidly, I never expected anything like this!”
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If so, why at the instigation of the Continent order 100,000 breechloaders?
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