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Definition of Breechloaders
1. breechloader [n] - See also: breechloader
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breechloaders
Literary usage of Breechloaders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Guns and Gunpowders: Comprising a Selection from Reports of by Frederick Toms (1897)
"THIS TRIAL was the outcome of a long controversy, in which the merits and demerits
of the old-fashioned muzzle-loaders and the "new-fangled" breechloaders ..."
2. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect (1886)
"The vessels of the mercantile marine to be used as cruisers should also be armed
with the most efficient breechloaders, and an adequate supply ..."
3. World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893 by United States World's Columbian Commission. Committee on Awards (1901)
"His successor in like manner opposed them, and said that no nation had ever
proposed to arm infantry with breechloaders, notwithstanding the fact that the ..."
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