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Breech-loading

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Breech´-load`ing
a.1.Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
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Adj.1.breech-loading - (of guns) designed to be loaded at the breech
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On the forecastle lay the perfection of a breech-loading gun, very thick at the breech, and very narrow in the bore, the model of which had been in the Exhibition of 1867.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
The latter, all the while swearing that he would not go, went on board with a regular arsenal of hunting weapons, among which were two double-barrelled breech-loading fowling-pieces, and a rifle that had withstood every test, of the make of Purdey, Moore & Dickson, at Edinburgh.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
Three heavy breech-loading double-eight elephant guns, weighing about fifteen pounds each, to carry a charge of eleven drachms of black powder.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
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