Usually means: Firearm loading ammunition at breech.
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  1. breechloader: Merriam-Webster
  2. breechloader: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. breechloader: Vocabulary.com
  4. breechloader: Wordnik
  5. breechloader: Wiktionary
  6. breechloader: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. breechloader: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. breechloader: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Breechloader, breechloader: Dictionary.com
  10. Breechloader: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Breechloader: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. breechloader: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. breechloader: Rhymezone
  14. Breechloader: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. breechloader: FreeDictionary.org
  16. breechloader: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. breechloader: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breechloader: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See breech-loading as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (breechloader)

▸ noun:  A variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the breech (the end opposite that which discharges the projectile).

Similar:
breech, brakeload, breechen, railgun, bullpup, buttstock, cowboy load, bargeload, broadsider, backload, more...

Opposite:
muzzleloader, bolt-action, lever-action

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Similar:
breech, brakeload, breechen, railgun, bullpup, buttstock, cowboy load, bargeload, broadsider, backload, more...

Opposite:
muzzleloader, bolt-action, lever-action



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