breechloading
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of breechloading
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Five hundred patents on breechloading mechanisms were filed between 1860–71 in the United States alone.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2019
My wife had quickly given me my belt and breechloading double rifle.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
The guns and rifles of various breechloading mechanism were all displayed and admired.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
For his timely and needful present I gave him two doti, and amused him with an exhibition of the wonderful mechanism of the Winchester rifle, and my breechloading revolvers.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
The main armament of the Empress will consist of four 67 ton breechloading guns mounted in pairs en barbette.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
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