Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A breech-loading rifle without a magazine, which is charged and fired with a single cartridge: so called to distinguish it from a magazine-rifle or repeating arm that has a reserve of cartridges supplied to the chamber automatically.

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Examples

  • The first shot would be the rifle of Vahr Farg's son; it was a single-loader, like his own.

    The Keeper H. Beam Piper 1934

  • He knew what the old rifle could do, to an inch, and there were places where the thieves would be coming up where he could stay out of blaster-range and pick them all off, even with a single-loader.

    The Keeper H. Beam Piper 1934

  • With the sixth came again the thunderous roar of the Cree's single-loader.

    God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • With the sixth came again the thunderous roar of the Cree's single-loader.

    God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • MacDonald threw open the breech of his single-loader and drew out a cartridge as long as his finger.

    The Hunted Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • With the sixth came again the thunderous roar of the Cree's single-loader.

    God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • The Second Ban carried a Mauser, the old single loader, to which a magazine was fitted in the Serbian arsenals; while the Third Ban had the old single-loader Berdan rifle.

    The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

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