chassepot
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.