breechloading
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of breechloading
Example Sentences
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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
The guns and rifles of various breechloading mechanism were all displayed and admired.
From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
Chassepot, shas′po, n. the kind of bolt-action breechloading rifle adopted by the French army in 1866.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The guns known as breechloading rifles are from three inches to fourteen inches in calibre, that is, across the bore, and in length from twelve to over sixty feet.
From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul
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 Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
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