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breechloading
[ breech-loh-ding ]
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Origin of breechloading1
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Example Sentences
Curiously enough the earliest cannon seem to have been breechloading.
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Ill and weak they staggered south, and five days later "the slave" ran away with a valuable breechloading elephant-gun.
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Chassepot, shas′po, n. the kind of bolt-action breechloading rifle adopted by the French army in 1866.
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The main armament of the Empress will consist of four 67 ton breechloading guns mounted in pairs en barbette.
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