breechloader

Definitions

Examples

• The chief lesson taught by the engagement is the tremendous power of the breechloader in steady hands.

• I carried a smooth-bore breechloader charged with the largest buck-shot in one barrel and with a bullet in the other.

• Some one made him a present of a Purdey breechloader, and he uses Eley cartridges.

• It was a rifle—a repeating breechloader of a famous make and a model of thirty years before.

• The Honourable, when he went over the farm with his breechloader, invariably came in and drank a glass of the small beer.