Crossword-Solution: CHASSEPOT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chassepot | n. | A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHASSEPOT | anagram | SPACESHOT |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CHASSEPOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Breech-loading rifle of Franco-Prussian war. | 1 answer |
| Rifle | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with CHASSEPOT (5)
Chassepot, who once, it will not be forgotten, "wrought miracles"; but he has his doubts as to the morality of explosive bullets.
The first was evidently a chassepot --one recognized it by the sharp report, which sounds like the crack of a whip--while the other three came from the lancers' carbines.
The deciding of his marriage will influence all the rest: it might almost be regretted that our friend should abandon himself to an excess of honorable feeling! Without offending any one, the famous saying about the Chassepot rifle may be applied to the Chickering Piano; it is doing wonders at Rome.
The infantry of the army was provided with a breech-loading weapon, called after its inventor the Chassepot.
The Chassepot was a weapon in all respects superior to the famous needle-gun, which was still the weapon of the Prussian army.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1960).