Breechloader
a firearm loaded at the breech.
Historical Examples
A Gunner Aboard the “Yankee” Russell Doubleday
Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies
Middy and Ensign G. Manville Fenn
The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885 Charles Royle
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