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Definition of Repeating firearm
1. Noun. A firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repeating Firearm
Literary usage of Repeating firearm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"repeating firearm.—A gun, rifle or other firearm arranged to deliver several
shots from one loading, especially a fire arm of a magazine-rifle type; ..."
2. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1898)
"... the magazine of a repeating firearm at any time ; mid numerous minor inventions,
all of which have been patented. Dr. Maynard had received many honors, ..."
3. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1922)
"... a repeating firearm before the end of the sixteenth century. A German recommended
to an English statesman "one of his countrymen, who had invented a ..."
4. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1922)
"... disappeared can be given from the experience of a man who, to all appearances,
had devised a repeating firearm before the end of the sixteenth century. ..."
5. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"... disappeared can be given from the experience of a man who, to all appearances,
had devised a repeating firearm before the end of the sixteenth century. ..."
6. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"... can be given from the experience of a man who, to all appearances, had devised
a repeating firearm before the end of the sixteenth century. ..."
7. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"... to all appearances, had devised a repeating firearm before the end of the
sixteenth century. A German recommended to an English statesman "one of his ..."
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