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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Dimensions, expense, and very many other reasons are given for this ruinous custom, but all other Navies mount breechloaders on vessels of the same dimensions as our own.
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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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It is part of the national hypocrisy to cry peace while our neighbours are whetting their knives and polishing their breechloaders.
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