Lake schooners lay in a long row during the summer months, while busy loaders passed the planks from one to the other into the deep holds.
For this reason the loadersare picked and careful men.
All of the trainmen who have worked on these cars, and the loaders in the woods like them very much.
Soon will coveys come a-flitting, Over purple slopes and ridges, To the butts where we are sitting With our loaders close behind.
During these races the car-windows are opened, and numerous breech-loaders fling hundreds of bullets among the densely crowded and flying masses.
He never took his eyes from off us, until the body rolled over, and I thanked our breech-loaders which had prevented the poor beast from having a fair chance.
If I had had a double rifle I could have repeated the shot, but in those days of muzzle-loaders I had to reload a single rifle, and as usual, when in a hurry, the bullet stuck in the barrel and I could not drive it home.
They have breech–loaders of all sorts, and you know we must do them the justice to say that they fought bravely enough round here.
It was quick work certainly, Jenny; but with these breech–loaders one can fire all the shots in a magazine in less than a minute, and at such close quarters there was no possibility of missing oneʼs aim.
Dick could see them clearly, the paddlers plying their blades with terrific energy, and the fighting men standing or kneeling, ramming charges into their muzzle-loaders in desperate haste.
Shouts and cries of rage and excitement came from the enemy, rifles flashed and roared, while the muzzle-loaders of the Ashanti attackers bellowed as they sent their load of slugs towards the stockade.
So proficient are these loaders that a freight car is loaded in twenty minutes.
You remember that the Civil War began with muzzle-loaders and ended with breech-loaders.
By the Berdan system, these were turned into breech-loaders at the Ilion plant, the breech being cut out of the barrel and a breech-block inserted, swinging upward and forward.
None other than the blacks could have started the sled out from the skids; and while, with jerks and sudden snatches, the fierce brutes worked it out of deep snow to the iced tracks, the loaders looked admiringly on.
Now if any teamster thinks that the loaders are stacking it on him, he can report to the foreman, who'll see him righted.
There were no breech-loaders in those days, and the object of a smooth-bore was easy loading, which was especially necessary when shooting from the saddle.
Formerly breech-loaders were confined to the heaviest ordnance; now they are a part of the lightest field pieces.
The early breech-loaders had been discarded, as it was not known how to make the breech gas-tight, and the explosions rendered the guns more dangerous to their users than to the enemy.
Muzzle and Breech Loadersof the Sixteenth Century.
Means for operating log turners and log loaders appear in patents to Hill, No.
Warriors of greater equanimity than the French soldier possesses might perhaps stand on the defensive in calm self-confidence with simple breech-loaders as their weapons, if simple breech-loaders were also weapons of the assailants.
But our men have the new breech-loaders now, Mr. Folsom," said the officers.
Got heap better," was his comment, and nothing but brand new breech-loaders would serve his purpose.
As a precaution against faulty or double loading, marks on the rammer handle showed the loaders when the different parts of the charge were properly seated.
The last two were armed with breech-loading guns, which were now superseding the old muzzle-loaders to which the ordnance authorities had clung with such obstinacy long after every other nation had consigned them to the scrap heap.
These big muzzle-loaders were formed by shrinking successive jackets over a steel tube which formed the bore.
You tell me that there are muzzle-loaders there, and that there is an ample supply of ammunition, and of food and drink.
But what of the muzzle-loaders which you stated were kept here?
I ran into evidence that you people had already used the blueprints for breech-loaders and mortars.
The lanky Watson laughed lowly, "You mean like selling them a few quick-firing breech-loaders and trench mortars?
They were somewhat reassured when their attention was called to the immense advantage we had over them with our breech-loaders and magazine guns against their bows and spears.
It clearly illustrates the advantage of breech-loaders and magazine guns when game is plentiful and much is required.
The breech loaders of Mr. Goodenough and the Houssas and Frank's repeating carbine now came into play.
The riflemen on the walls directed their fire now exclusively upon the leaders of the column, the breech loaders doing immense execution, and soon the Dahomans in their efforts to advance had to climb over lines of dead in their front.
I do not say that eight men armed with breech loaders could defeat a whole tribe; but they would be so formidable, that any of these negro kings would probably prefer taking presents and letting us pass peacefully to trying to rob us.
Loaders put in the tompion and on muzzle-bag, and wipe off and re-lacquer the front pivot-bolt.
Spongers andLoaders rank next in importance, and, with activity and coolness, should possess the necessary physical strength and stature.
Spongers and Loaders are to be careful to keep their bodies as much within the port as practicable, otherwise at close quarters they will be picked off by musketry.
Loaders provide a bucket of water and a wet swab; and, for rifle cannon, a pot of oil or prepared grease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loaders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
