Usage examples (25)

• Then, in 1855, England's Lord Armstrong designed a rifled breechloader that included so many improvements as to be revolutionary.
• Yet its only luxury was the bottom of a breechloader brass cartridge, inlaid and flanked by the sharp incisors of the little Wabar, or mountain coney.
• “The weapon is a most formidable one, it is admirably constructed, and equipped for service, and will, I doubt not, produce, if brought into action, effects almost as...
• No. 12 smoothbore, the first breechloader I ever had, I started.