Usually means: Load ammunition from the rear.
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  1. breech-loading: Merriam-Webster
  2. breech-loading: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breech-loading, breech-loading: Collins English Dictionary
  4. breech-loading: Vocabulary.com
  5. breech-loading: Wordnik
  6. breech-loading: Wiktionary
  7. breech-loading: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Breech-loading, breech-loading: Dictionary.com
  9. Breech-loading: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Breech-loading: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. breech-loading: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. breech-loading: Rhymezone
  13. Breech-loading: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. breech-loading: FreeDictionary.org
  15. breech-loading: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. breech-loading: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (of a gun) Such that ammunition is loaded at the rear of the bore.

Similar:
breechloading, gun-broke, boattailed, gunbroke, rear, cold-back, crossbacked, Dutch-buttocked, postbuckling, piggyback, more...

Opposite:
muzzle-loading, front-loading, bolt-action

Phrases:
aspirating, breech-loading syringe, breech-loading syringe aspirating, Breech-loading swivel gun, more...

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Similar:
breechloading, gun-broke, boattailed, gunbroke, rear, cold-back, crossbacked, Dutch-buttocked, postbuckling, piggyback, more...

Opposite:
muzzle-loading, front-loading, bolt-action

Phrases:
aspirating, breech-loading syringe, breech-loading syringe aspirating, Breech-loading swivel gun, more...



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