breech-loading

breechloading [breech-loh-ding] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN adjective loaded at the breech. Liberaldictionary.com

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Origin of breechloading First recorded in 1855–60; breech + loading Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for breech-loading Historical Examples of breech-loading

Breech-loading guns, for instance, had already been invented.

Artillery Through the Ages

Albert Manucy

Them new stockings of yours is breech-loading, aint they, Billy?

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive

Alf Burnett

So far as I could see, they were armed with breech-loading rifles.

Saunterings

Charles Dudley Warner

I think they then still had the Armstrong breech-loading system.

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

Captain A. T. Mahan

They had also a 10-inch gun aft, and a dozen 6-inch breech-loading guns.

The British Navy Book

Cyril Field

British Dictionary definitions for breech-loading breech-loading adjective (of a firearm) loaded at the breech Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012