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What does breech-loading mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word breech-loading? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (gun) Such that ammunition is loaded at the rear of the bore.
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Recoil systems and cartridge ammunition increased rates of fire of breech-loading weapons.
The breech-loading principle was also adopted in them, and special provision to effect this satisfactorily was invented by him.
The other early sea-cannon, which we have mentioned, were also breech-loading.
By 1870, they had access to more effective breech-loading, repeating firearms.
Steel warships propelled by steam and equipped with breech-loading weapons had become standard.
In the second half of the year the government purchased approximately 6,000 breech-loading rifles.

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