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breechloading

[ breech-loh-ding ]

adjective

  1. loaded at the breech.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of breechloading1

First recorded in 1855–60; breech + loading
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Example Sentences

Curiously enough the earliest cannon seem to have been breechloading.

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

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

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

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