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breechloader
[ breech-loh-der ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of breechloader1
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Example Sentences
The chief lesson taught by the engagement is the tremendous power of the breechloader in steady hands.
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I carried a smooth-bore breechloader charged with the largest buck-shot in one barrel and with a bullet in the other.
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Some one made him a present of a Purdey breechloader, and he uses Eley cartridges.
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It was a rifle—a repeating breechloader of a famous make and a model of thirty years before.
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The Honourable, when he went over the farm with his breechloader, invariably came in and drank a glass of the small beer.
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