breechloader

The gun belonging to the Sea Flower was a small breechloader of good pattern, and could carry a shell quite as far as the boats.

Dimensions, expense, and very many other reasons are given for this ruinous custom, but all other Navies mount breechloaders on vessels of the same dimensions as our own.

But these breechloaders, which send forth continuous flame, swift as the lightning, flash on flash, allow not a moment for thought.

I thought poor Spalding might have left me some trifle to remember him by—his pet breechloader, or something of the kind; but, candidly, I never expected anything like this!”

It is part of the national hypocrisy to cry peace while our neighbours are whetting their knives and polishing their breechloaders.