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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

For cavalry, the revolver and

breechloader

will supersede the saber.

Rep. Sec. War (1860).

breechloader ‎(plural breechloaders)

a variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the breech, i.e. the end opposite that which discharges the projectile