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Definition of Self-loading
1. Adjective. (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously. "An autoloading rifle"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-loading
Literary usage of Self-loading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"... self-loading petronel, probably of the time of Charles I. The contrivance
consists of a revolving cylinder, containing seven chambers, with touch-holes ..."
2. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1836)
"PALMER S PATENT EXCAVATING AND self-loading CART. In this railway age, an invention
which is represented to be capable of effecting a saving of no less than ..."
3. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1906)
"WINCHES TER $2, .32 and .35 Caliber Self-Loading Rifles The Winchester Model 1905
Self-Loading Rifle is not cumbersome, complicated and unsightly like most ..."
4. Rifles and Rifle Shooting by Charles Askins (1912)
"CHAPTER VI THE self-loading RIFLES IT seems a foregone conclusion that the rifle
of the future must be automatic in its reloading. ..."
5. Western Field by Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.), California Game and Fish Protective Association (1907)
"Tested by use and abuse for two years, it has proved its absolute reliability
and practicability. In these qualities there is no self-loading ..."
6. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1919)
"... \ve have often debated the question whether such a rifle should merely be
self-loading or whether it should be both self-loading and self-firing; ..."
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