breechloading

How to use breechloading in a sentence

• Curiously enough the earliest cannon seem to have been breechloading.

  Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

• Ill and weak they staggered south, and five days later "the slave" ran away with a valuable breechloading elephant-gun.

  Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O. | J.G. Millais

• Chassepot, shas′po, n. the kind of bolt-action breechloading rifle adopted by the French army in 1866.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) | Various

• The main armament of the Empress will consist of four 67 ton breechloading guns mounted in pairs en barbette.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 | Various