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breechloader

/breech-loh-der/US // ˈbritʃˌloʊ dər //UK // (ˈbriːtʃˌləʊdə) //

后膛装载机,后膛装填器,后膛装弹机,后膛装填机

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a firearm loaded at the breech.

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.