chassepot
English
Etymology
Surname of the French inventor, Antoine Alphonse Chassepot.
Noun
chassepot (plural chassepots)
- (military) A kind of breechloading, centre-fire rifle.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃas.po/
Noun
chassepot m (plural chassepots)
- a breechloading, rapid-fire, long-range rifle used in the French army from 1866 to 1874
Further reading
- “chassepot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.