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What is a chassepot?

What is a chassepot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (military) A kind of breechloading, centre-fire rifle.
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A soldier placing his chassepot at his ear blew out his brains.
He was collecting chassepots, and received five sous for every chassepot he brought in.
The Commission of Pardons awaited, chassepot in hand, the prey given up to them by the courts-martial.
We forget that France gave us the modern bolt-action rifle in the first place, the Chassepot.
The bark is jagged by the slashes of venomous chassepot bullets.
The Prussians were impressed with the French Chassepot and issued numbers of captured carbines to their mounted troops as the Chassepot-Karabiner.

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