Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of breech-loading rifle in which the cartridge is exploded by the rapid impact at its base of a needle or small spike.
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Examples
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The carnage that repelled the Chancellor was due in part to the French infantry rifle, the chassepot, which proved to be a more effective instrument of destruction than the Prussian needle-gun.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The carnage that repelled the Chancellor was due in part to the French infantry rifle, the chassepot, which proved to be a more effective instrument of destruction than the Prussian needle-gun.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The carnage that repelled the Chancellor was due in part to the French infantry rifle, the chassepot, which proved to be a more effective instrument of destruction than the Prussian needle-gun.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The carnage that repelled the Chancellor was due in part to the French infantry rifle, the chassepot, which proved to be a more effective instrument of destruction than the Prussian needle-gun.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The carnage that repelled the Chancellor was due in part to the French infantry rifle, the chassepot, which proved to be a more effective instrument of destruction than the Prussian needle-gun.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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"Easy," Niven said, gesturing with the needle-gun.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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Earlier, he had seen the shape of the needle-gun lumping her underwear in a dresser drawer.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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But what struck him most was a recent Prussian invention, the needle-gun, which he saw would be the arm of the future.
John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub R. E. Cholmeley
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Nicholas von Dreyse, inventor of the needle-gun, is now living, at the age of seventy-eight.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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[46] There has been as much noise made over the needle-gun as by that famous and fascinating slaughter weapon; yet it is by no means an arm of tender years.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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"What struck him most was a recent Prussian invention, the needle-gun, which he saw would be the arm of the future."
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Sir Herbert Edwardes to Lord Canning,
March 1857.
July 28, 2015