chassepot
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Surname of the French inventor, Antoine Alphonse Chassepot.
Noun[edit]
chassepot (plural chassepots)
- (military) A kind of breechloading, centre-fire rifle.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chassepot m (plural chassepots)
- a breechloading, rapid-fire, long-range rifle used in the French army from 1866 to 1874
Further reading[edit]
- “chassepot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.